About the Authors

Navin Bhatt

Contributed equally to this work with: Navin Bhatt, Shyam Sundar Budhathoki

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

Current address: Bayalpata Hospital (Nyaya Health Nepal / Possible), Achham, Nepal

Affiliation B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Shyam Sundar Budhathoki

Contributed equally to this work with: Navin Bhatt, Shyam Sundar Budhathoki

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

ss.budhathoki@gmail.com

Current address: Golden Community, Lalitpur, Nepal

Affiliation B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Don Eliseo III Lucero-Prisno

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

Affiliations London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, University of the Philippines Open University, Laguna, Philippines

Gambhir Shrestha

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

Current address: B. P. Koirala Memorial Cancer Hospital, Bharatpur, Nepal

Affiliation B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Meika Bhattachan

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

Affiliation B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Jeevan Thapa

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

Current address: Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lalitpur, Nepal

Affiliation B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Avinash K. Sunny

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

Current address: Golden Community, Lalitpur, Nepal

Affiliation B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Pawan Upadhyaya

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

Affiliation B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Anup Ghimire

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

Affiliation B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Paras K. Pokharel

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

Affiliation B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.