About the Authors

Mehran Asadi-Aliabadi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Health Sciences Research Center, Addiction Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran, Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Psychosocial Health Research Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Seyed M. Karimi

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Management & System Sciences, School of Public Health & Information Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

Fariba Mirbaha-Hashemi

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Psychosocial Health Research Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi

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

Affiliations Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Psychosocial Health Research Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Community and Family Medicine, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Leila Janani

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Psychosocial Health Research Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Ebrahim Babaee

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Psychosocial Health Research Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Marzieh Nojomi

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Psychosocial Health Research Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Community and Family Medicine, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Maziar Moradi-Lakeh

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

moradilakeh.m@iums.ac.ir, mazmoradi@gmail.com

Affiliation Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.