About the Authors

Elham Lotfalinezhad

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

Affiliations School of Nursing, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Health Education and Promotion, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran, Department of Psychiatry and Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran

Shannon Freeman

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Nursing, Faculty of Human and Health Sciences, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada

Ahmad Kousha

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

Affiliation Department of Health Education and Promotion, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Karen Andersen-Ranberg

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, Department of Geriatrics, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

Jeffrey E. Stokes

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gerontology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sama Amirkhani-Ardeh

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Health Sciences, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada

Ahmad Sohrabi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cancer Control Research Center, Cancer Control Foundation, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Farzaneh Barati

Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Critical Care Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran

Mina Hashemiparast

Roles Conceptualization, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran

Mohammad Asghari-Jafarabadi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cabrini Research, Cabrini Health, Malvern, Victoria, Australia, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Mohammad Reza Honarvar

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Management and Social Development Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran

Haidar Nadrian

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

haidarnadrian@gmail.com

Affiliation Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have no conflict of interest to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.