About the Authors

Negassie Berhe Weldehaweria

Contributed equally to this work with: Negassie Berhe Weldehaweria, Elsa Hagos Abreha

negelsa5960@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Aksum University, Aksum, Tigray, Ethiopia

Elsa Hagos Abreha

Contributed equally to this work with: Negassie Berhe Weldehaweria, Elsa Hagos Abreha

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Semara University, Semara, Afar, Ethiopia

Meresa Gebremedhin Weldu

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Aksum University, Aksum, Tigray, Ethiopia

Kebede Haile Misgina

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Aksum University, Aksum, Tigray, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NBW. Formal analysis: NBW EHA MGW KHM. Funding acquisition: NBW. Investigation: NBW EHA. Methodology: NBW EHA. Project administration: NBW. Supervision: NBW EHA MGW KHM. Validation: NBW EHA MGW KHM. Visualization: NBW EHA MGW KHM. Writing – original draft: NBW EHA MGW KHM. Writing – review & editing: NBW EHA MGW KHM.