Assessment of preventive behavior and associated factors towards COVID-19 in Qellam Wallaga Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: A community-based cross-sectional study

• Birhanu Gutu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Birhanu Gutu, Genene Legese, Nigussie Fikadu, Birhanu Kumela, Firafan Shuma, Wakgari Mosisa, Zelalem Regassa, Yoseph Shiferaw, Lata Tesfaye, Buli Yohannes, Kogila Palanimuthu, Zewudie Birhanu, Desalegn Shiferaw

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

  * E-mail: birhanugutu@yahoo.com

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1462-7245

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• Genene Legese ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Birhanu Gutu, Genene Legese, Nigussie Fikadu, Birhanu Kumela, Firafan Shuma, Wakgari Mosisa, Zelalem Regassa, Yoseph Shiferaw, Lata Tesfaye, Buli Yohannes, Kogila Palanimuthu, Zewudie Birhanu, Desalegn Shiferaw

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Nigussie Fikadu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Birhanu Gutu, Genene Legese, Nigussie Fikadu, Birhanu Kumela, Firafan Shuma, Wakgari Mosisa, Zelalem Regassa, Yoseph Shiferaw, Lata Tesfaye, Buli Yohannes, Kogila Palanimuthu, Zewudie Birhanu, Desalegn Shiferaw

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Madda Walabu University, Bale Robe, Ethiopia

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

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• Birhanu Kumela ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Birhanu Gutu, Genene Legese, Nigussie Fikadu, Birhanu Kumela, Firafan Shuma, Wakgari Mosisa, Zelalem Regassa, Yoseph Shiferaw, Lata Tesfaye, Buli Yohannes, Kogila Palanimuthu, Zewudie Birhanu, Desalegn Shiferaw

  Roles Writing – review & editing

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

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• Firafan Shuma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Birhanu Gutu, Genene Legese, Nigussie Fikadu, Birhanu Kumela, Firafan Shuma, Wakgari Mosisa, Zelalem Regassa, Yoseph Shiferaw, Lata Tesfaye, Buli Yohannes, Kogila Palanimuthu, Zewudie Birhanu, Desalegn Shiferaw

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Wakgari Mosisa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Birhanu Gutu, Genene Legese, Nigussie Fikadu, Birhanu Kumela, Firafan Shuma, Wakgari Mosisa, Zelalem Regassa, Yoseph Shiferaw, Lata Tesfaye, Buli Yohannes, Kogila Palanimuthu, Zewudie Birhanu, Desalegn Shiferaw

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Zelalem Regassa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Birhanu Gutu, Genene Legese, Nigussie Fikadu, Birhanu Kumela, Firafan Shuma, Wakgari Mosisa, Zelalem Regassa, Yoseph Shiferaw, Lata Tesfaye, Buli Yohannes, Kogila Palanimuthu, Zewudie Birhanu, Desalegn Shiferaw

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

  Affiliation Qellam Wallaga Zone Health Department, Oromia Regional Health Bureau, Dambi Dollo, Ethiopia

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• Yoseph Shiferaw ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Birhanu Gutu, Genene Legese, Nigussie Fikadu, Birhanu Kumela, Firafan Shuma, Wakgari Mosisa, Zelalem Regassa, Yoseph Shiferaw, Lata Tesfaye, Buli Yohannes, Kogila Palanimuthu, Zewudie Birhanu, Desalegn Shiferaw

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Dambi Dollo University, Dambi Dollo, Ethiopia

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• Lata Tesfaye ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Birhanu Gutu, Genene Legese, Nigussie Fikadu, Birhanu Kumela, Firafan Shuma, Wakgari Mosisa, Zelalem Regassa, Yoseph Shiferaw, Lata Tesfaye, Buli Yohannes, Kogila Palanimuthu, Zewudie Birhanu, Desalegn Shiferaw

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physics, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Dambi Dollo University, Dambi Dollo, Ethiopia

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• Buli Yohannes ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Birhanu Gutu, Genene Legese, Nigussie Fikadu, Birhanu Kumela, Firafan Shuma, Wakgari Mosisa, Zelalem Regassa, Yoseph Shiferaw, Lata Tesfaye, Buli Yohannes, Kogila Palanimuthu, Zewudie Birhanu, Desalegn Shiferaw

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Natural and Computational Science, Dambi Dollo University, Dambi Dollo, Ethiopia

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• Kogila Palanimuthu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Birhanu Gutu, Genene Legese, Nigussie Fikadu, Birhanu Kumela, Firafan Shuma, Wakgari Mosisa, Zelalem Regassa, Yoseph Shiferaw, Lata Tesfaye, Buli Yohannes, Kogila Palanimuthu, Zewudie Birhanu, Desalegn Shiferaw

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Zewudie Birhanu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Birhanu Gutu, Genene Legese, Nigussie Fikadu, Birhanu Kumela, Firafan Shuma, Wakgari Mosisa, Zelalem Regassa, Yoseph Shiferaw, Lata Tesfaye, Buli Yohannes, Kogila Palanimuthu, Zewudie Birhanu, Desalegn Shiferaw

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Desalegn Shiferaw

  Contributed equally to this work with: Birhanu Gutu, Genene Legese, Nigussie Fikadu, Birhanu Kumela, Firafan Shuma, Wakgari Mosisa, Zelalem Regassa, Yoseph Shiferaw, Lata Tesfaye, Buli Yohannes, Kogila Palanimuthu, Zewudie Birhanu, Desalegn Shiferaw

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

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

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