About the Authors

Abigail Stevely

Affiliation The Medical School, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Munyaradzi Dimairo

m.dimairo@sheffield.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Susan Todd

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

Steven A. Julious

Affiliation School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Jonathan Nicholl

Affiliation School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Daniel Hind

Affiliation School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Cindy L. Cooper

Affiliation School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MD. Performed the experiments: MD AS. Analyzed the data: MD. Wrote the paper: MD AS ST SAJ CLC JN DH. Contributed to the development of the study protocol: MD AS ST SAJ CLC JN DH. Wrote the analysis plan and conducted the analysis: MD. Led the writeup of the manuscript: AS MD. Supervised MD as part of the NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship: ST JN SAJ. Advised MD as part of the NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship: DH CLC.