About the Authors

Dennis Chirawurah

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Environmental and occupational health, School of Public Health, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Felix Achana

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Navrongo, Ghana

Abdou Orou-Seko

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Environmental and occupational health, School of Public Health, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana, Research Laboratory in Aquaculture and Aquatic Ecotoxicology, University of Parakou, Parakou, Benin

Joyce Aputere Ndago

Contributed equally to this work with: Joyce Aputere Ndago, Colette Santah

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Social and Behavioral Change, School of Public Health, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon

Colette Santah

Contributed equally to this work with: Joyce Aputere Ndago, Colette Santah

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Social and Behavioral Change, School of Public Health, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Vida Nyagre Yakong

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Preventive Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Stephen Apanga

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Martin Nyaaba Adokiya

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

mnyaaba11@uds.edu.gh

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.