About the Authors

Adhra Al-Mawali

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

adhra.almawali@moh.gov.om, adhra.almawali@gmail.com

Affiliations Centre of Studies & Research, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, Strategic Research Program for Non-Communicable Diseases, The Research Council (TRC), Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Sathish Kumar Jayapal

Roles Data curation, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre of Studies & Research, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Magdi Morsi

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

Affiliation Centre of Studies & Research, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Waleed Al-Shekaili

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

Affiliation Centre of Studies & Research, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Avinash Daniel Pinto

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre of Studies & Research, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Hilal Al-Kharusi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre of Studies & Research, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Ayaman Al-Harrasi

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

Affiliation Centre of Studies & Research, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Zainab Al-Balushi

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre of Studies & Research, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

John Idikula

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre of Studies & Research, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on data sharing and materials.