About the Authors

Kidane Gebremedhin

Contributed equally to this work with: Kidane Gebremedhin, Gistane Ayele, Negussie Boti

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

Affiliation Mirab Abaya District Health Office, Gamo Zone Health Department, Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Gistane Ayele

Contributed equally to this work with: Kidane Gebremedhin, Gistane Ayele, Negussie Boti

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

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

Negussie Boti

Contributed equally to this work with: Kidane Gebremedhin, Gistane Ayele, Negussie Boti

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

kahlidboti@gmail.com

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

Eshetu Andarge

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

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

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

Teshale Fikadu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

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

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interest