Community mask wearing as a COVID-19 preventive measure, its barriers, and motivators among rural households of Uganda: A mixed methods approach

• Grace Biyinzika Lubega ,

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

  * E-mail: gracelubega45@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Disease Control and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0657-7903

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• Hilbert Mendoza,

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

  Affiliations Department of Disease Control and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7673-3751

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• Juvenal Nkeramahame,

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

  Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, FIND, The Global Alliance for Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9089-2668

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• Filimin Niyongabo,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Disease Control and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5630-6936

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• Joviah Gonza,

  Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Disease Control and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Betty Nakachwa,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Disease Control and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• David Musoke

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Disease Control and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3262-3918

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