Xu, Dong ( Roman)
Dev, Rubee
Shrestha, Abha
Zhang, Lingling
Shrestha, Archana
Shakya, Pushpanjali
Hughes, James P.
Shakya, Prabin Raj
Li, Jinghua
Liao, Jing
Karmacharya, Biraj Man
Article History
Received: 25 December 2019
Accepted: 5 May 2020
First Online: 29 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study will involve field procedures in Nepal and data analyses in Dhulikhel, Nepal and Guangzhou, China. This protocol received central ethical approval from the Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC# 464/2019), and local ethical approval from the Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences (#216/19) in Nepal and from the School of Public Health at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong, China (SYSU# 2018–037). However, we will not begin recruiting at other centers in the trial until the local approval from each center has been obtained. All participants will provide written informed consent before participating in the study.
: All participants will provide written informed consent before participating in the study, which will include consent to publish anonymous results from individual participants.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.