About the Authors

Sharifah Saffinas Syed Soffian

Contributed equally to this work with: Sharifah Saffinas Syed Soffian, Nazarudin Safian, Azmawati Mohammed Nawi, Huan-Keat Chan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Nazarudin Safian

Contributed equally to this work with: Sharifah Saffinas Syed Soffian, Nazarudin Safian, Azmawati Mohammed Nawi, Huan-Keat Chan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

nazarudin@ppukm.ukm.edu.my

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Azmawati Mohammed Nawi

Contributed equally to this work with: Sharifah Saffinas Syed Soffian, Nazarudin Safian, Azmawati Mohammed Nawi, Huan-Keat Chan

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Shahrul Bariyah Ahmad

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Public Health Division, Kedah State Health Department, Kedah, Malaysia

Huan-Keat Chan

Contributed equally to this work with: Sharifah Saffinas Syed Soffian, Nazarudin Safian, Azmawati Mohammed Nawi, Huan-Keat Chan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Clinical Research Center, Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital, Kedah, Malaysia

Muhammad Radzi Abu Hassan

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Clinical Research Center, Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital, Kedah, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.