About the Authors

Hamed Cheraghmakani

Contributed equally to this work with: Hamed Cheraghmakani, Seyed Mohammad Baghbanian, Reza HabibiSaravi, Fariba Ghasemihamedani

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

Affiliation Neurology Department, Boualicina Hospital, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran

Seyed Mohammad Baghbanian

Contributed equally to this work with: Hamed Cheraghmakani, Seyed Mohammad Baghbanian, Reza HabibiSaravi, Fariba Ghasemihamedani

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

Affiliation Neurology Department, Boualicina Hospital, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran

Reza HabibiSaravi

Contributed equally to this work with: Hamed Cheraghmakani, Seyed Mohammad Baghbanian, Reza HabibiSaravi, Fariba Ghasemihamedani

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

rhabibisaravi@mazums.ac.ir, drhabibisaravi@hotmail.com

Affiliation Multiple Sclerosis Clinic, Boualicina Hospital, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran

Arash Azar

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

‡ This author also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Fariba Ghasemihamedani

Contributed equally to this work with: Hamed Cheraghmakani, Seyed Mohammad Baghbanian, Reza HabibiSaravi, Fariba Ghasemihamedani

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

Affiliations School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Mazandaran Multiple Sclerosis Society, Sari, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.