About the Authors

Deborah G. Smith

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

deborah.smith@lsuhs.edu

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Louisiana State University Health Science Center Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Corey D. Smith

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Science Center Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Jennifer A. DeLeon

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Louisiana State University Health Science Center Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Jillian L. Sandoz

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Science Center Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Carolina O. Ochoa

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Science Center Shreveport, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Martha P. Pearson

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America

Raimunda H. M. Macena

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.