About the Authors

Tom Murungi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Midwifery and Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Lira University, Lira City, Uganda

Irene Kunihira

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Midwifery and Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Lira University, Lira City, Uganda

Pamela Oyella

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

Affiliation Department of Midwifery and Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Lira University, Lira City, Uganda

Moses Mugerwa

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

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Public Health, Lira University, Lira City, Uganda

Peruth Gift

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Lira University, Lira City, Uganda

Mercy Jane Aceng

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

Affiliation Department of Midwifery and Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Lira University, Lira City, Uganda

Lydia Abolo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Midwifery and Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Lira University, Lira City, Uganda

Sean Steven Puleh

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

spuleh@lirauni.ac.ug

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Public Health, Lira University, Lira City, Uganda

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.