About the Authors

Abraham Zefong Chin

Contributed equally to this work with: Abraham Zefong Chin, Richard Avoi, Azman Atil, Khamisah Awang Lukman, Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul Rahim, Mohd Yusof Ibrahim, Kamruddin Ahmed, Mohammad Saffree Jeffree

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

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Public Health Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

Richard Avoi

Contributed equally to this work with: Abraham Zefong Chin, Richard Avoi, Azman Atil, Khamisah Awang Lukman, Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul Rahim, Mohd Yusof Ibrahim, Kamruddin Ahmed, Mohammad Saffree Jeffree

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Public Health Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

Azman Atil

Contributed equally to this work with: Abraham Zefong Chin, Richard Avoi, Azman Atil, Khamisah Awang Lukman, Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul Rahim, Mohd Yusof Ibrahim, Kamruddin Ahmed, Mohammad Saffree Jeffree

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Public Health Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Health, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre, Jalan Yaacob Latiff, Bandar Tun Razak, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Khamisah Awang Lukman

Contributed equally to this work with: Abraham Zefong Chin, Richard Avoi, Azman Atil, Khamisah Awang Lukman, Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul Rahim, Mohd Yusof Ibrahim, Kamruddin Ahmed, Mohammad Saffree Jeffree

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Public Health Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul Rahim

Contributed equally to this work with: Abraham Zefong Chin, Richard Avoi, Azman Atil, Khamisah Awang Lukman, Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul Rahim, Mohd Yusof Ibrahim, Kamruddin Ahmed, Mohammad Saffree Jeffree

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Public Health Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

Mohd Yusof Ibrahim

Contributed equally to this work with: Abraham Zefong Chin, Richard Avoi, Azman Atil, Khamisah Awang Lukman, Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul Rahim, Mohd Yusof Ibrahim, Kamruddin Ahmed, Mohammad Saffree Jeffree

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Public Health Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

Kamruddin Ahmed

Contributed equally to this work with: Abraham Zefong Chin, Richard Avoi, Azman Atil, Khamisah Awang Lukman, Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul Rahim, Mohd Yusof Ibrahim, Kamruddin Ahmed, Mohammad Saffree Jeffree

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Borneo Medical and Health Research Centre, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

Mohammad Saffree Jeffree

Contributed equally to this work with: Abraham Zefong Chin, Richard Avoi, Azman Atil, Khamisah Awang Lukman, Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul Rahim, Mohd Yusof Ibrahim, Kamruddin Ahmed, Mohammad Saffree Jeffree

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

saffree@ums.edu.my

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Public Health Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, Borneo Medical and Health Research Centre, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.