Knowledge, perceptions and preventive practices towards COVID-19 early in the outbreak among Jimma university medical center visitors, Southwest Ethiopia

• Yohannes Kebede ,

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

  * E-mail: yohanneskbd@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Faculty of Public Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3142-5266

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• Yimenu Yitayih,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Psychiatry Department, Faculty of Health Science, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

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• Zewdie Birhanu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Faculty of Public Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

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• Seblework Mekonen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Science and Technology, Faculty of Public Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

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• Argaw Ambelu

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

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Science and Technology, Faculty of Public Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

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