Incidence and predictors of dehydration among preterm neonates admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit of Southern Ethiopia hospitals: A prospective follow-up study

• Mequanint Ayehu Akele ,

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

  * E-mail: mequaninitayehu@gmail.com

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

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9352-3880

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• Dires Birhanu Mihretie,

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

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

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• Mitsiwa Ruffo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

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

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• Tamalew Alemie Tegegn,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Software

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

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• Migbar Sibhat Mekonnen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Abraham Dessie Gessesse,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Abel Desalegn Demeke,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2913-7233

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• Kassa Genetu Alem

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

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

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