About the Authors

Kelly L’Engle

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

klengle@usfca.edu

Affiliation School of Nursing and Health Professions, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Eunice Sefa

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation FHI 360, Communicate for Health (C4H) Project, Accra, Ghana

Edward Akolgo Adimazoya

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation FHI 360, Communicate for Health (C4H) Project, Accra, Ghana

Emmanuel Yartey

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation FHI 360, Communicate for Health (C4H) Project, Accra, Ghana

Rachel Lenzi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation FHI 360, Behavioral, Epidemiological, and Clinical Sciences Division, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Cindy Tarpo

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

Affiliation VOTO Mobile, Accra, Ghana

Nii Lante Heward-Mills

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation VOTO Mobile, Accra, Ghana

Katherine Lew

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation FHI 360, Strategic Information and Monitoring & Evaluation Division, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Yvonne Ampeh

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ghana Health Service/Ministry of Health, Health Promotion Department, Accra, Ghana

Competing Interests

CT and NLH are employed by a commercial company, VOTO Mobile. VOTO Mobile provided the survey platform for study data collection. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. VOTO Mobile works in the field of mobile phone surveys by enabling IVR and SMS data collection. VOTO runs the end-to-end implementation of these surveys such that a researcher can provide a survey script and methodology and VOTO will return the results. To do this VOTO provides a software platform, interconnections with Mobile Network Operators, implementation staff and advisory services. VOTO Mobile was contracted to perform work and services necessary to support activities on the project survey. VOTO Mobile or its staff did not provide any funding for this study.