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Received: 1 August 2018

Accepted: 3 January 2019

First Online: 10 January 2019

Authors’ information

: DTE: Lecturer in the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health Nursing, School of Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Science, University of Gondar, Ethiopia.DGK: Lecturer in the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health Nursing, School of Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Science, University of Gondar, Ethiopia.WWT: Lecturer in the Department of community health Nursing, School of Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Ethiopia.

: Ethical approval was obtained from University of Gondar, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, School of Nursing Ethical Review Committee, in a letter with a reference number: N/S/5512/06/09. Letter of permission for data collection was obtained from the hospital medical director’s office. The confidentiality of patient-related data was maintained by avoiding possible identifiers, such as the name of the mother; only numerical identification was used as a reference. After the whole data collection, the data extraction tool was locked and kept confident throughout the whole process of the research work.

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: The authors of this study declare that they have no any competing interest.

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