About the Authors

Josephine Akua Ackah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Josephine.Ackah@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Department of Population and Health, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Patience Ansomah Ayerakwah

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Optometry, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Kingsley Boakye

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Bernard Afriyie Owusu

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population and Health, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Vincent Bio Bediako

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population and Health, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Millicent Gyesi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Science, St. Vincent College of Education, Yendi, Ghana

Edward Kwabena Ameyaw

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Policy Studies and School of Graduate Studies, Lingnan University, Lingnan, Hong Kong, L & E Research Consult Ltd, Wa, Upper West Region, Ghana

Francis Appiah

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Social Sciences, Berekum College of Education, Berekum, Bono Region, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.