Trends, and patterns, of premarital sexual intercourse and its associated factors among never-married young women aged 15–24 in Sierra Leone

• Augustus Osborne ,

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

  * E-mail: augustusosborne2@gmail.com

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0226-841X

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3498-2909

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• 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

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