Time to initiate trophic feeding and predictors among preterm neonates admitted at General Hospitals in Tigray, 2025

• Teklebrhan Welderufael Kidane ,

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

  * E-mail: welderufaelteklebrhan@gmail.com

  current address: Axum Northern Ethiopia

  Affiliation Axum University College of Health Sciences, Axum, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0462-5247

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• Zeray Baraki,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  current address: Axum Northern Ethiopia

  Affiliation Axum University College of Health Sciences, Axum, Ethiopia

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• Asefa Iyasu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  current address: Axum Northern Ethiopia

  Affiliation Axum University College of Health Sciences, Axum, Ethiopia

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• Tekle Gebremeskel Ygzaw,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  current address: Axum Northern Ethiopia

  Affiliation Araya Kahsu College of Health Sciences, Aksum, Ethiopia

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• Binyam Gebrehiwet Tesfay,

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

  current address: Adigrat Northern Ethiopia

  Affiliation Adigrat University College of Health Sciences, Adigrat, Ethiopia

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• Ngsti Gebremichael Beyene,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  current address: Axum Northern Ethiopia

  Affiliation Axum University College of Health Sciences, Axum, Ethiopia

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• Teklewoini Mariye Zemicheal,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  current address: Axum Northern Ethiopia

  Affiliation Axum University College of Health Sciences, Axum, Ethiopia

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• Nebiat Desale Gidey,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  current address: Axum Northern Ethiopia

  Affiliation Araya Kahsu College of Health Sciences, Aksum, Ethiopia

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• Geberziher Gebreslassie Welearegay

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  current address: Axum Northern Ethiopia

  Affiliation Araya Kahsu College of Health Sciences, Aksum, Ethiopia

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