About the Authors

Sunil Shrestha

Contributed equally to this work with: Sunil Shrestha, Binaya Sapkota

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sunilcresta@gmail.com (SS); sapkota.binaya@gmail.com (BS); Bhuvan.kc@monash.edu (BKC)

Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical and Health Service Research, Nepal Health Research and Innovation Foundation, Lalitpur, Province Bagmati, Nepal, Department of Pharmacy, Nepal Cancer Hospital and Research Center Pvt. Ltd, Harisiddhi, Lalitpur, Province Bagmati, Nepal

Binaya Sapkota

Contributed equally to this work with: Sunil Shrestha, Binaya Sapkota

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

sunilcresta@gmail.com (SS); sapkota.binaya@gmail.com (BS); Bhuvan.kc@monash.edu (BKC)

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nobel College, Affiliated to Pokhara University, Kathmandu, Province Bagmati, Nepal

Santosh Thapa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Jeevee Health Pvt Ltd, Kathmandu, Province Bagmati, Nepal

Bhuvan K. C.

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

sunilcresta@gmail.com (SS); sapkota.binaya@gmail.com (BS); Bhuvan.kc@monash.edu (BKC)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, Monash University Malaysia, Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

Saval Khanal

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

Nepal Cancer Hospital and Research Center Pvt. Ltd provided support in the form for salary for author Sunil Shrestha. Jeevee Health Pvt. Ltd provided support in the form of salary for author Santosh Thapa. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.