Kawata, Rina
Endo, Masayuki
Rai, Shiba Kumar
Ohashi, Kazutomo
Article History
Received: 27 November 2021
Accepted: 10 April 2022
First Online: 16 May 2022
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Ethics Review Board at the Government of Nepal Health Research Council (Reg. no. 212/2018) and the Research Ethics Committee of Osaka University (Reg. no. 15488-2, Reg. no. 17079-4). In addition, we obtained approval from the District Health Offices in Pokhara and Damauli. All participants were offered a face-to-face explanation regarding the purpose and methods of the study before obtaining their written consent. We did not collect information that could identify individual participants. Questionnaires was strictly kept in a locked storage container, and we stored the data in a USB drive and analysed it as a digitised data with a computer detached from any network. The storage period of data was 5 years from the end of the study or 10 years from publication, whichever was later. After the storage period, questionnaire sheets would be shredded, and data on the USB drive would be erased irreversibly.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.