Effect of a social media-based health education program on postnatal care (PNC) knowledge among pregnant women using smartphones in Dhulikhel hospital: A randomized controlled trial

• Kalpana Chaudhary ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: kalpana298@gmail.com

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4882-6496

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• Jyoti Nepal,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Program, Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Dhulikhel, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9911-6019

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• Kusum Shrestha,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Program, Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Dhulikhel, Nepal

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• Manita Karmacharya,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Program, Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Dhulikhel, Nepal

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• Dipesh Khadka,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Program, Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Dhulikhel, Nepal

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• Abha Shrestha,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dhulikhel Hospital, Kathmandu University Hospital, Dhulikhel, Nepal

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• Prabin Raj Shakya,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biomedical Knowledge Engineering Lab, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4824-2178

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• Shristi Rawal,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical and Preventive Nutrition Sciences, School of Health Professions, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States of America

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• Archana Shrestha

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

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

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