About the Authors

Inyene E. Essien-Aleksi

Contributed equally to this work with: Inyene E. Essien-Aleksi, Yuan Zhang, Ainat Koren, Natalia Palacios, Katherine L. Tucker

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

Essienaleksi@Merrimack.edu

Affiliation School of Nursing and Health Sciences, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yuan Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Inyene E. Essien-Aleksi, Yuan Zhang, Ainat Koren, Natalia Palacios, Katherine L. Tucker

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Solomont School of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ainat Koren

Contributed equally to this work with: Inyene E. Essien-Aleksi, Yuan Zhang, Ainat Koren, Natalia Palacios, Katherine L. Tucker

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Solomont School of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America

Natalia Palacios

Contributed equally to this work with: Inyene E. Essien-Aleksi, Yuan Zhang, Ainat Koren, Natalia Palacios, Katherine L. Tucker

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America

Luis M. Falcon

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

Affiliation College of Fine Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America

Katherine L. Tucker

Contributed equally to this work with: Inyene E. Essien-Aleksi, Yuan Zhang, Ainat Koren, Natalia Palacios, Katherine L. Tucker

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical & Nutritional Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.