About the Authors

Josephine Vanessa Nakalema

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Health, School of Public Health Lira University, Lira, Uganda

Marvin Musinguzi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

mmusinguzimarvin@lirauni.ac.ug, marvin.musinguzi@tuni.fi

Affiliation Department of Health sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

Deo Benyumiza

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Lira University, Lira, Uganda

Eustes Kigongo

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departments of Environmental Health and Disease Control, Faculty of Public Health, Lira University, Lira, Uganda

Edward Kumakech

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Lira University, Lira, Uganda

Rashida Namuwaya

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Midwifery, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Lira University, Lira, Uganda

Joshua Oryem Opido

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Mbarara University of science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

Nicholas Damulira

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software

Affiliation Department of Community Health, School of Public Health Lira University, Lira, Uganda

Raymond Tumwesigye

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Lira University, Lira, Uganda

Amir Kabunga

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

Affiliation Uganda Technical College, Department of Water and Sanitation P.O.BOX 04, Lira, Uganda

Marc Sam Opollo

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Health, School of Public Health Lira University, Lira, Uganda

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.