About the Authors

Bikram Adhikari

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

bikram.adhikariadhitya@gmail.com

Affiliation School of Public Health and Community Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Anup Ghimire

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health and Community Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Nilambar Jha

Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Public Health and Community Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Rajendra Karkee

Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health and Community Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Archana Shrestha

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

Affiliations Department of Public Health, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Nepal, Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Institute for Implementation Science and Health, Kathmandu, Nepal

Roshan Dhakal

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

Affiliation School of Public Health and Community Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Aarju Niraula

Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health and Community Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Sangita Majhi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Public Health and Community Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Antesh Kumar Pandit

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software

Affiliation School of Public Health and Community Medicine, B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal

Niroj Bhandari

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

Affiliations Department of Public Health, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Nepal, Institute for Implementation Science and Health, Kathmandu, Nepal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.