Prevalence and Associated Factors of Hypertension: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study in Municipalities of Kathmandu, Nepal by Raja Ram Dhungana, Achyut Raj Pandey, Bihungum Bista, Suira Joshi, Surya Devkota

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Tracking health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Nepal by Meghnath Dhimal, Mandira Lamichhane Dhimal, KhemBahadur Karki, Doreen Montag, David A. Groneberg, Ulrich Kuch

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Critical care services in Bagmati province of Nepal: A cross sectional survey [version 4; peer review: 4 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Subekshya Luitel, Sushila Paudel, Diptesh Aryal, Janaki Pandey, Hem Raj Paneru, Roshni Shakya, Prashant Acharya, Isha Amatya, Rashan Haniffa, Suman Pant, Abi Beane, Pradip Gyanwali

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Illness Perception and Depressive Symptoms among Persons with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: An Analytical Cross-Sectional Study in Clinical Settings in Nepal by Suira Joshi, Raja Ram Dhungana, Usha Kiran Subba

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Burden of tobacco-related cancers in urban, semi-urban and rural setting of Nepal: Findings from population-based cancer registries 2019. by Uma Kafle Dahal, Meghnath Dhimal, Atul Budukh, Kopila Khadka, Sudha Poudel, Gehanath Baral, Pradip Gyanwali, Anjani Kumar Jha, Sandhya Chapagain

“…<h4>Methods</h4>The data were collected by population-based cancer registry conducted in nine districts by Nepal Health Research Council. The districts were categorized in urban, semi-urban and rural regions on the basis of geographical locations and facilities available in the regions. …”
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Theory-based mobile phone text messaging intervention for blood pressure control (TEXT4BP) among hypertensive patients in Nepal: study protocol for a feasibility randomised control... by Buna Bhandari, Padmanesan Narasimhan, Abhinav Vaidya, Rohan Jayasuriya

“…This pilot study is not funded.Ethics and dissemination This study has received ethics approval from the University of New South Wales Human Research Ethics Committee B (HC190357), Nepal Health Research Council (302/2019) and Institutional Review Committee of Kathmandu Medical College and Teaching Hospital Kathmandu, Nepal (030520192). …”
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Tracking Progress of National Health Summit Declarations - Health Policy Analysis: A Qualitative Study by Ashis Shrestha, Lisasha Poudel, Dipesh Tikhatri, Sushant Regmi, Jay Bhushan Jha, Shreya Baniya, Mandish Prasad Phuyal, Akanshya Prasai, Sunil Kunwar, Amit Chand, Prakriti Karki, Nurusha Tamrakar, Ritu Sapkota, Raman Yadav

“…Ethical approval from Nepal Health Research Council, Ethical Review Board (Reference number: 1069). …”
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Topical chlorhexidine 0.2% versus topical natamycin 5% for fungal keratitis in Nepal: rationale and design of a randomised controlled non-inferiority trial by Victor Hu, David Macleod, Helen Anne Weiss, Matthew J Burton, Simon Arunga, Astrid Leck, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Jeremy John Hoffman, Reena Yadav, Sandip Das Sanyam, Pankaj Chaudhary, Abhishek Roshan, Einoti Matayan

“…Secondary outcomes include epithelial healing time, scar/infiltrate size, ulcer depth, hypopyon size, perforation and/or therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty (corneal transplant), positive reculture rate (day 7) and quality of life (EuroQol-5 dimensions, WHO/PBD-VF20, WHOQOL-BREF).Ethics and dissemination The Nepal Health Research Council, the Nepal Department of Drug Administration and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ethics committee have approved the trial. …”
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