About the Authors

Wisdom Klutse Azanu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wisdom Klutse Azanu, Joseph Osarfo

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

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Medicine, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

Joseph Osarfo

Contributed equally to this work with: Wisdom Klutse Azanu, Joseph Osarfo

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

josarfo@uhas.edu.gh

Affiliation Department of Community Health, School of Medicine, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

Gideon Appiah

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Physician Assistantship Training Programme, School of Medicine, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

Yvonne Sefadzi Godonu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Nursing and Midwifery Training College, Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana

Gifty Dufie Ampofo

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Health, School of Medicine, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

Verner Orish

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

Michael Amoh

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Medicine, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

Evans Kofi Agbeno

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Central Region, Ghana

Emmanuel Senanu Komla Morhe

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Medicine, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

Margaret Gyapong

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Health Research, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.