About the Authors

Yvonne Nartey

Contributed equally to this work with: Yvonne Nartey, Kwabena Amo-Antwi

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

yvonnenartey69@gmail.com, ynartey@ug.edu.gh

Affiliation Department of Adult Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Kwabena Amo-Antwi

Contributed equally to this work with: Yvonne Nartey, Kwabena Amo-Antwi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology/Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana

Philip C. Hill

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for International Health, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Edward T. Dassah

Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology/Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana

Richard H. Asmah

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

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Health & Allied Sciences, School of Basic and Biomedical Sciences, Ho, Volta region, Ghana

Kofi M. Nyarko

Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Disease Control and Prevention Department, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

Ramatu Agambire

Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Garden City University College, Kumasi-Ghana, Ghana

Thomas O. Konney

Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology/Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana

Joel Yarney

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

Affiliation National Centre for Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

Nelson Damale

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

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

Brian Cox

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

Affiliation Hugh Adam Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.