About the Authors

Rabina Khadka

Contributed equally to this work with: Rabina Khadka, Anjali Bhatt

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Anjali Bhatt

Contributed equally to this work with: Rabina Khadka, Anjali Bhatt

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

bhattanjali80@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Milan Thapa

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Research and Innovation, Public Health Arena, Kathmandu, Nepal, Nepal Health Frontiers, Kathmandu, Nepal, Space for Adolescence Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

Anusha Sharma

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lalitpur, Nepal

Manoj Joshi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Durga Khadka Mishra

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dean, Madan Bhandari Academy of Health Sciences, Hetauda, Nepal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.