About the Authors

Kehabtimer Shiferaw Kotiso

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

kehabtimershfrw@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Werabe University, Werabe, Ethiopia, School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia

Nabiha Degemu

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

Affiliation School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia

Samson Gebremedhin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Melaku Taye

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Adane Petros

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Fanuel Belayneh

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia

Deneke Wolde

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wachemo University, Hossana, Ethiopia

Dejene Hailu

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

Affiliation School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.