About the Authors

Samuel T. Opoku

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

sopoku@georgiasouthern.edu

Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Community Health, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, United States of America

Bettye A. Apenteng

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Community Health, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, United States of America

Linda Kimsey

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

Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Community Health, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, United States of America

Angie Peden

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Public Health Practice and Research, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, United States of America

Charles Owens

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Public Health Practice and Research, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

NO authors have competing interests.