Health-seeking behaviour, referral patterns and associated factors among patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases in Ghana: A cross-sectional mixed method study

• Maame-Boatemaa Amissah-Arthur ,

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

  * E-mail: mbaarthur@doctors.net.uk

  Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Ghana Medical School, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7124-5254

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• Anna Gyaban-Mensah ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Gyaban-Mensah, Vincent Boima, Charles Mate-Kole

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

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

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• Vincent Boima ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Gyaban-Mensah, Vincent Boima, Charles Mate-Kole

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

  Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Ghana Medical School, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

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• Ernest Yorke ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ EY, DD and VG also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Ghana Medical School, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

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• Dzifa Dey ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ EY, DD and VG also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Ghana Medical School, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

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• Vincent Ganu ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ EY, DD and VG also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

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• Charles Mate-Kole

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Gyaban-Mensah, Vincent Boima, Charles Mate-Kole

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana, Center for Ageing Studies, College of Humanities, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, Department of Psychology, College of Humanities, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

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