About the Authors

Dereje Haile

Contributed equally to this work with: Dereje Haile, Mekdes Kondale, Eshetu Andarge

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

Current address: Department of Public Health, Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita Sodo, Ethiopia

Affiliation Wolaita Zone Health Department, Duguna Fango Health office, Wolaita Sodo, Wolaita Zone, Ethiopia

Mekdes Kondale

Contributed equally to this work with: Dereje Haile, Mekdes Kondale, Eshetu Andarge

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Reproductive Health Unit, School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

Eshetu Andarge

Contributed equally to this work with: Dereje Haile, Mekdes Kondale, Eshetu Andarge

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

andeshe7@gmail.com

Affiliation Reproductive Health Unit, School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

Abayneh Tunje

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

Teshale Fikadu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

Nigussie Boti

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Reproductive Health Unit, School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.