About the Authors

Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi

Affiliation Tabriz Health services management research center, Faculty of management and medical informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani

Affiliation Road and Traffic Injury Research Center, Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Mostafa Farahbakhsh

Affiliation Research center of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Tabriz University of medical sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Leila Nikniaz

nikniazleila@gmail.com

Affiliation Tabriz Health services management research center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Zeinab Nikniaz

Affiliation Liver and gastrointestinal disease research center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JST LN. Data curation: HSB. Formal analysis: LN ZN. Funding acquisition: JST. Investigation: LN MF. Methodology: HSB MF. Project administration: LN. Software: HSB LN. Supervision: JST MF. Validation: HSB LN ZN. Visualization: LN MF. Writing – original draft: LN. Writing – review & editing: ZN JST.