Nutritional status and its associated factors among commercial female sex workers in Hawassa city, south Ethiopia

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Global Health

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Introduction

Materials & Methods

Study sites, design, and study participants

Sample size determination

Data collection instrument and methods

Quantitative data

Qualitative data

BMI assessment

Dietary intake assessment

Ethics

Quality control

Statistical analyses

Results

Discussion

Conclusions

Supplemental Information

Schematic presentation of ‘Sampling procedure’ based on proportional allocation to the ‘sampling frame’

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‘Systematic random sampling’ based on the trend of ‘weekly client visit’ and ‘sampling fraction’ of the respective study facilities

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Bivariate analysis of factors associated with nutritional status among FCSWs in Hawassa city, Ethiopia

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Raw data for the qualitative survey

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Raw data for the qualitative study

Opcx is an extension for opencode version 4.03 software used to analyze qualitative data. The software can be accessed from: https://www.umu.se/en/department-of-epidemiology-and-global-health/research/open-code2/.

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Questionnaire (English version) for both ‘quantitative’ and ‘qualitative’ methods

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Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Zegeye Gelan conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Zelalem Tafese conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Eskinder Yilma performed the experiments, analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Mahbuba Kawser analyzed the data, authored or reviewed drafts of the article, and approved the final draft.

Human Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

Ethical clearance to conduct the study was obtained from the Hawassa University, School of Graduate studies (ref No: IRB/021/14).

Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

Ethical clearance to conduct the study was obtained from the Hawassa University, School of Graduate studies (ref No: IRB/021/14).

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The raw data are available in the Supplemental Files.

Funding

The authors received no funding for this work.

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