About the Authors

Mohamad Azmeer Sadali

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohamad Azmeer Sadali, Wan Syafira Ishak

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Centre for Healthy Ageing & Wellness (H-CARE), Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Audiology Unit, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital Sungai Buloh, Ministry of Health, Selangor, Malaysia

Wan Syafira Ishak

Contributed equally to this work with: Mohamad Azmeer Sadali, Wan Syafira Ishak

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

wsyafira@ukm.edu.my

Affiliations Centre for Healthy Ageing & Wellness (H-CARE), Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Audiology Program, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Mahadir Ahmad

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Community Health Studies (ReaCH), Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Clinical Psychology Program, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Derek J. Hoare

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Hearing Sciences, Mental Health and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.