About the Authors

Mandira Paul

mandira.paul@kbh.uu.se

Affiliation Department of Women’s and Children’s health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Kirti Iyengar

Affiliations Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Karolinska Institutet/ Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Action Research & Training for Health (ARTH), Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Birgitta Essén

Affiliation Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Karolinska Institutet/ Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson

Affiliation Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Karolinska Institutet/ Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Sharad D. Iyengar

Affiliation Action Research & Training for Health (ARTH), Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Johan Bring

Affiliation Statisticon, Stockholm, Sweden

Sunita Soni

Affiliation Action Research & Training for Health (ARTH), Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Marie Klingberg-Allvin

Affiliations Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Karolinska Institutet/ Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, School of Education, Health and Social Studies, Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden

Competing Interests

JB is an employee of Statisticon. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MP KI BE KGD SDI MKA. Performed the experiments: MP KI SS. Analyzed the data: MP JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JB. Wrote the paper: MP MKA KGD BE SDI KI. Protocol development and implementation: MP KI SDI SS. Study conduct: MP KI MKA KGD. Data management: MP KI SS.