Assessing the influence of COVID-19 lockdown measures on cognition and behavior in school age children in Arba Minch Health and Demographic Surveillance site, Southern Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study

• Befikadu Tariku Gutema ,

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

  * E-mail: befikadutariku.gutema@ugent.be, befikadutariku2@gmail.com

  Affiliations School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0574-6074

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• Eshetu Zerihun Tariku,

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

  Affiliations School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Zeleke Aschalew Melketsedik,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

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• Bruno Levecke,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Translational Physiology, Infectiology and Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium

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• Stefaan De Henauw,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Amina Abubakar,

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

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute (KMRI)–Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research (Coast), Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kilifi, Kenya

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• Souheila Abbeddou

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

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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