About the Authors

Hubert Amu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hubert Amu, Abdul-Aziz Seidu

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

hamu@uhas.edu.gh

Affiliation Department of Population and Behavioural Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Hohoe, Ghana

Abdul-Aziz Seidu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hubert Amu, Abdul-Aziz Seidu

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

Affiliations Department of Population and Health, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Ebenezer Agbaglo

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

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

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

Robert Kokou Dowou

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Hohoe, Ghana

Edward Kwabena Ameyaw

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Kwaku Kissah-Korsah

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.