About the Authors

Ugochinyere Ijeoma Nwagbara

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

216045259@stu.ukzn.ac.za, ugochinyereijeoma@gmail.com

Affiliation Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard Campus, Durban, South Africa

Emmanuella Chinonso Osual

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Discipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Durban, South Africa

Rumbidzai Chireshe

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard Campus, Durban, South Africa

Obasanjo Afolabi Bolarinwa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard Campus, Durban, South Africa, Department of demography and social statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria

Balsam Qubais Saeed

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

Nelisiwe Khuzwayo

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Discipline of Rural Health, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard Campus, Durban, South Africa

Khumbulani W. Hlongwana

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard Campus, Durban, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.