About the Authors

Pramita Shrestha

Contributed equally to this work with: Pramita Shrestha, Anisha Koirala

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

pramitasth@kusms.edu.np

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Public Health, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Nepal

Anisha Koirala

Contributed equally to this work with: Pramita Shrestha, Anisha Koirala

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Nepal

Prajwal Satyal

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

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Agriculture Economics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Ashish Mani Bhurtel

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Silverline Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal

Biraj Man Karmacharya

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Nepal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.