Diabetes-related distress and associated factors among adult diabetes mellitus patients attending public hospitals in Gedio zone, southern Ethiopia: Mediation analysis

• Alem Bayable Mersha ,

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

  * E-mail: alembayable122@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Science, Dilla University, Dilla, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8056-1136

  ⨯
• Atirsaw Shimekaw,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Science, Dilla University, Dilla, Ethiopia

  ⨯
• Edom Gebremedhin,

  Roles Formal analysis, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Science, Dilla University, Dilla, Ethiopia

  ⨯
• Jerusalem Sewalem,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine and Health Science, Dilla University, Dilla, Ethiopia

  ⨯
• Andualem Bayih,

  Roles Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory, College of Medicine and Health Science, Dilla University, Dilla, Ethiopia

  ⨯
• Abel Desalegn Demeke,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Science, Dilla University, Dilla, Ethiopia

  ⨯
• Simret Gebre

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine and Health Science, Dilla University, Dilla, Ethiopia

  ⨯