About the Authors

Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

Contributed equally to this work with: Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Edward Kwabena Ameyaw

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

Affiliation The Australian Centre for Public and Population Health Research (ACPPHR), Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Abdul-Aziz Seidu

Contributed equally to this work with: Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Edward Kwabena Ameyaw

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

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

Eugene Budu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

budueugene@gmail.com

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

Ebenezer Agbaglo

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ EA, FA, CA and AGA also contributed equally to this work.

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

Francis Appiah

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ EA, FA, CA and AGA also contributed equally to this work.

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

Collins Adu

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ EA, FA, CA and AGA also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Health Promotion and Disability Study, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Anita Gracious Archer

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ EA, FA, CA and AGA also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana

Edward Kwabena Ameyaw

Contributed equally to this work with: Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Edward Kwabena Ameyaw

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

Affiliation The Australian Centre for Public and Population Health Research (ACPPHR), Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.