About the Authors

Prince Nii Ossah Addo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

paddo@email.sc.edu (PNOA); brownm68@emailbox.sc.edu (MJB)

☯ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Angela D. Liese

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ ADL, JZ, and GW authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Jiajia Zhang

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ ADL, JZ, and GW authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Glenn Weaver

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ ADL, JZ, and GW authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Exercise Science, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Monique J. Brown

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

paddo@email.sc.edu (PNOA); brownm68@emailbox.sc.edu (MJB)

☯ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America, South Carolina SmartState Center for Healthcare Quality, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America, Rural and Minority Health Research Center, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America, Office for the Study on Aging, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.