Thapa, Janak Kumar http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1420-0965
Stöckl, Doris
Sangroula, Raj Kumar
Thakur, Dip Narayan
Mehata, Suresh
Pun, Asha
Delius, Maria
Article History
Received: 30 November 2020
Accepted: 15 November 2021
First Online: 4 December 2021
Declarations
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: Ethical approval was taken from the Ethical Review Board of the Nepal Health Research Council (Ref. no. 1296/2016) and the Center for International Health, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU<sup>CIH</sup>) Ethical Commission (20 May 2016). Secondary data was used for this study, which was obtained from ICF, DHS. NDHS surveys were also approved from the Nepal Health Research Council and Institutional Review Board of ICF International, United States.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.