About the Authors

Godwin Ovenseri-Ogbomo

Contributed equally to this work with: Godwin Ovenseri-Ogbomo, Edgar Ekure, Antor O. Ndep, Stephen Ocansey, Khathutshelo Percy Mashige, Kovin Shunmugan Naidoo, Kelechi C. Ogbuehi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Optometry, Centre for Health Sciences, University of the Highlands and Islands, Inverness, United Kingdom

Uchechukwu L. Osuagwu

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

l.osuagwu@westernsydney.edu.au

‡ ULO, BNE and KA also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Translational Health Research Institute (THRI), Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia

Bernadine N. Ekpenyong

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

‡ ULO, BNE and KA also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, Department of Public Health, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria

Kingsley Agho

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

‡ ULO, BNE and KA also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation School of Science and Health, Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia

Edgar Ekure

Contributed equally to this work with: Godwin Ovenseri-Ogbomo, Edgar Ekure, Antor O. Ndep, Stephen Ocansey, Khathutshelo Percy Mashige, Kovin Shunmugan Naidoo, Kelechi C. Ogbuehi

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

Affiliation Salus University Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Antor O. Ndep

Contributed equally to this work with: Godwin Ovenseri-Ogbomo, Edgar Ekure, Antor O. Ndep, Stephen Ocansey, Khathutshelo Percy Mashige, Kovin Shunmugan Naidoo, Kelechi C. Ogbuehi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences, College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria

Stephen Ocansey

Contributed equally to this work with: Godwin Ovenseri-Ogbomo, Edgar Ekure, Antor O. Ndep, Stephen Ocansey, Khathutshelo Percy Mashige, Kovin Shunmugan Naidoo, Kelechi C. Ogbuehi

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Optometry and Vision Science, School of Allied Health Sciences, College of Health and Allied Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Khathutshelo Percy Mashige

Contributed equally to this work with: Godwin Ovenseri-Ogbomo, Edgar Ekure, Antor O. Ndep, Stephen Ocansey, Khathutshelo Percy Mashige, Kovin Shunmugan Naidoo, Kelechi C. Ogbuehi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation African Vision Research Institute, Discipline of Optometry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Durban, South Africa

Kovin Shunmugan Naidoo

Contributed equally to this work with: Godwin Ovenseri-Ogbomo, Edgar Ekure, Antor O. Ndep, Stephen Ocansey, Khathutshelo Percy Mashige, Kovin Shunmugan Naidoo, Kelechi C. Ogbuehi

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

Affiliations African Vision Research Institute, Discipline of Optometry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Durban, South Africa, School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales

Kelechi C. Ogbuehi

Contributed equally to this work with: Godwin Ovenseri-Ogbomo, Edgar Ekure, Antor O. Ndep, Stephen Ocansey, Khathutshelo Percy Mashige, Kovin Shunmugan Naidoo, Kelechi C. Ogbuehi

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.