About the Authors

Timothy Kwabena Adjei

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

timkadjei@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Global and International Health, School of Public Health- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana

Aliyu Mohammed

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Princess Ruhama Acheampong

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global and International Health, School of Public Health- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Emmanuel Acquah-Gyan

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Global and International Health, School of Public Health- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Augustina Sylverken

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Theoretical and Applied Biology, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, Kumasi, Ghana

Sampson Twumasi-Ankrah

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Michael Owusu

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

Affiliation Faculty of Allied Health, Department of Medical Diagnostics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Ellis Owusu-Dabo

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global and International Health, School of Public Health- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.