About the Authors

Anthony Kwame Dah

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

☯ These authors contributed equally to the work and are joint first authors.

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

Joseph Osarfo

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

josarfo@uhas.edu.gh

☯ These authors contributed equally to the work and are joint first authors.

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

Hintermann Mbroh

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ho Teaching Hospital, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

Gifty Dufie Ampofo

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Adu Appiah-Kubi

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Wisdom Klutse Azanu

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Michael Amoh

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation

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

Emmanuel Senanu Komla Morhe

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.