About the Authors

Norhayati Ibrahim

Contributed equally to this work with: Norhayati Ibrahim, Sharlene S. L. Teo

Affiliation Health Psychology Programme, Faculty of Health Sciences, The National University of Malaysia (UKM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sharlene S. L. Teo

Contributed equally to this work with: Norhayati Ibrahim, Sharlene S. L. Teo

sharlenesl.teo@gmail.com

Affiliation Health Psychology Programme, Faculty of Health Sciences, The National University of Malaysia (UKM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Normah Che Din

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Health Psychology Programme, Faculty of Health Sciences, The National University of Malaysia (UKM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Abdul Halim Abdul Gafor

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Nephrology and SLE Unit, Faculty of Medicine, The National University of Malaysia (UKM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Rozmi Ismail

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Psychology and Human Development, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, The National University of Malaysia (UKM), Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NI ST. Performed the experiments: NI ST AH RI. Analyzed the data: NI ST NCD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NI ST. Wrote the paper: NI ST. Collected the data: NI ST AH RI.