About the Authors

Eugene Sackeya

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

mcsackeya@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Tatale District Hospital, Tatale, Ghana

Martin Muonibe Beru

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

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Tamale Teaching Hospital, Tamale, Ghana

Richard Nomo Angmortey

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

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Tamale Teaching Hospital, Tamale, Ghana

Douglas Aninng Opoku

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

Affiliations Department of Global Health and International Health, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Allen Clinic, Family Healthcare Services, Kumasi, Ghana

Victoria Achiaa Boamah

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

Affiliation School of Health and Social Care, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom

Francis Appiah

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

Affiliations Department of Global Health and International Health, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Department of Social Sciences, Berekum College of Education, Berekum, Bono Region, Ghana

Aliyu Mohammed

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

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.