About the Authors

Augustus Osborne

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

augustusosborne2@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences, Njala University, PMB, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Castro Ayebeng

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

Affiliations Department of Population and Health, College of Humanities and Legal Studies, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, Department of Research and Advocacy, Challenging Heights, Winneba, Ghana

Peter Bai James

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

Affiliations Faculty of Health, National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Camilla Bangura

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

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences, Njala University, PMB, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Richard Gyan Aboagye

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

Affiliation Department of Family and Community Health, Fred N. Binka School of Public Health, University of Health, and Allied Sciences, Hohoe, Ghana

Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

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

Affiliations REMS Consultancy Services, Takoradi, Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana, School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Faculty of Health, School of Public Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.