About the Authors

Preeti Mahato

Contributed equally to this work with: Preeti Mahato, Edwin van Teijlingen, Padam Simkhada, Catherine Angell, Vanora Hundley

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

pmahato@bournemouth.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Edwin van Teijlingen

Contributed equally to this work with: Preeti Mahato, Edwin van Teijlingen, Padam Simkhada, Catherine Angell, Vanora Hundley

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, United Kingdom, Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal, Nobel College, Pokhara University, Pokhara, Nepal

Padam Simkhada

Contributed equally to this work with: Preeti Mahato, Edwin van Teijlingen, Padam Simkhada, Catherine Angell, Vanora Hundley

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal, Nobel College, Pokhara University, Pokhara, Nepal, School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Catherine Angell

Contributed equally to this work with: Preeti Mahato, Edwin van Teijlingen, Padam Simkhada, Catherine Angell, Vanora Hundley

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Vanora Hundley

Contributed equally to this work with: Preeti Mahato, Edwin van Teijlingen, Padam Simkhada, Catherine Angell, Vanora Hundley

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.