“People are shortening the lifetime of mentally ill persons”; Community’s perception towards mental illness and help-seeking behavior in Bench Sheko, Sheka, Kaffa and West Omo zones, South West Ethiopia, 2021

• Nahom Solomon Habtamu ,

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

  * E-mail: nahomsolomon83@gmail.com, nahomsolomon@mtu.edu.et

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, School of Public Health, Mizan-Tepi University, Mizan, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8610-450X

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• Gebremeskel Mesafint,

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

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Mizan-Tepi University, Mizan, South West Ethiopia

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• Kidus Yenealem,

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

  Affiliation Department of Social Work, Mizan-Tepi University, Mizan, South West Ethiopia

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• Sewagegn Demelash,

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

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Debre-Markos University, Debre Markos, East Gojam, Ethiopia

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• Zenebu Muche,

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

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Debre-Markos University, Debre Markos, East Gojam, Ethiopia

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• Dawit Getachew

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

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, School of Public Health, Mizan-Tepi University, Mizan, Ethiopia

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