About the Authors

Myriam Dagher

Contributed equally to this work with: Myriam Dagher, Ali Abboud

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

Affiliation Center for Research on Population and Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Ali Abboud

Contributed equally to this work with: Myriam Dagher, Ali Abboud

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

Affiliation Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Ghada E. Saad

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

Affiliation Center for Research on Population and Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Rita Itani

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Research on Population and Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Rindala Fayyad

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Research on Population and Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

WOMENA Study Group¶

The WOMENA Study Group members are listed in the Acknowledgements.

Hala Ghattas

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

Current address: Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Affiliations Center for Research on Population and Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Stephen J. McCall

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

sm227@aub.edu.lb

Affiliation Center for Research on Population and Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.