Boadi, Abigail Opoku
Akenten, Charity Wiafe
Thye, Thorsten
Ackam, Nancy
Nkrumah-Appau, Michael
Oppong, Morrah
Ahiatrogah, Dzifa Kofi
Sogbo, Victoria
Ayinlooya, Evelyn Natashia Ayinpoka
Adu-Asiamah, Cynthia Kyerewaa
Agbavor, Bernadette
Agbanyo, Abigail
Loag, Wibke
Khan, Neyaz Ahmed
Berg, Stefan
Sylverken, Augustina Angelina
May, Jürgen
Amoako, Yaw Ampem https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4642-789X
Dekker, Denise
Phillips, Richard Odame
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Project number: 461611374)
Article History
Received: 4 May 2026
Accepted: 6 July 2026
First Online: 8 July 2026
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Committee on Human Research, Publication and Ethics (CHRPE) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)- Ghana, with approval number CHRPE/AP/837/23 and the German Ärztekammer in Hamburg (No: 2021-100726-BO-ff). All participants provided informed consent before enrolment into the study. All study procedures were conducted in accordance with the principles of human research as outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.