Study instrument is located in Additional file 1.
The study instrument is structured, self-administered, and comprises four parts.
The study instrument was quantitative in nature, whereby a questionnaire was used to obtain data from the respondents.
The study instrument used a scale ranging from 1 to 5, with a higher score indicating a higher degree of agreement, that is, parent involvement.
Validity of study instrument was confirmed through opinions of professors, assistant professors and lecturers; working in different management institutions in NCR region.
Focus group discussions with community members were conducted to assess local understanding of ART for development of our study instrument.
Specifically, using narrowly defined terms of sexual violence such as rape in a study instrument, as was done in this study, may underestimate its prevalence.
The study instrument comprised two questionnaires.
The study instrument was a self-administered questionnaire.
The study instrument has a high reliability of 0.8829.
The third limitation was related to the study instrument.
