About the Authors

Ritah Nantale

Contributed equally to this work with: Ritah Nantale, David Mukunya

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

ritahclaire24@gmail.com

Affiliations Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, Mbale, Uganda, Busitema University Centre of Excellence for Maternal Reproductive and Child Health (BuCEMaRCH), Mbale, Uganda

David Mukunya

Contributed equally to this work with: Ritah Nantale, David Mukunya

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

Affiliations Busitema University Centre of Excellence for Maternal Reproductive and Child Health (BuCEMaRCH), Mbale, Uganda, Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Community and Public Health, Mbale, Uganda, Department of Research, Nikao Medical Center, Kampala, Uganda

Kenneth Mugabe

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

Affiliations Busitema University Centre of Excellence for Maternal Reproductive and Child Health (BuCEMaRCH), Mbale, Uganda, Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mbale, Uganda

Julius N. Wandabwa

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

Affiliations Busitema University Centre of Excellence for Maternal Reproductive and Child Health (BuCEMaRCH), Mbale, Uganda, Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mbale, Uganda

John Stephen Obbo

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

Affiliations Busitema University Centre of Excellence for Maternal Reproductive and Child Health (BuCEMaRCH), Mbale, Uganda, Department of Internal Medicine, Mbale Regional Referral Hospital, Mbale, Uganda

Milton W. Musaba

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

Affiliations Busitema University Centre of Excellence for Maternal Reproductive and Child Health (BuCEMaRCH), Mbale, Uganda, Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mbale, Uganda

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.