About the Authors

Sintayehu Amare Tessema

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

Affiliation Department of Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia

Desalegn Dawit Assele

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

desalegndawit96@gamil.com

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

Henok Bekele Kebede

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health Department, Pharma College Hawassa Campus, Hawassa, Sidama, Ethiopia

Yitayew Ewnetu Mohammed

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.