About the Authors

Samar Younes

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

samar.younes@liu.edu.lb

Affiliations School of Pharmacy, Lebanese International University, Bekaa, Lebanon, INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon, Inserm U1094, IRD UMR270, Univ. Limoges, CHU Limoges, EpiMaCT - Epidemiology of chronic diseases in tropical zone, Institute of Epidemiology and Global Health – Michel Dumas, OmegaHealth, Limoges, France

Zeinab Abbas

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon, Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon, Ministry of Public Health, Narcotics Department, Beirut, Lebanon

Chadia Haddad

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

Affiliations INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon, Inserm U1094, IRD UMR270, Univ. Limoges, CHU Limoges, EpiMaCT - Epidemiology of chronic diseases in tropical zone, Institute of Epidemiology and Global Health – Michel Dumas, OmegaHealth, Limoges, France, Research Department, Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross, Jal-Eddib, Lebanon, Faculty of Public Health, Lebanese University, Fanar, Lebanon

Daniele Saade

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon

Nisreen Mourad

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Pharmacy, Lebanese International University, Bekaa, Lebanon, INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon, Inserm U1094, IRD UMR270, Univ. Limoges, CHU Limoges, EpiMaCT - Epidemiology of chronic diseases in tropical zone, Institute of Epidemiology and Global Health – Michel Dumas, OmegaHealth, Limoges, France, IVPN-Network, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates

Hala Sacre

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon, Drug Information Center, Order of Pharmacists of Lebanon, Beirut, Lebanon

Amal Al-Hajje

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon, Faculty of Pharmacy, Lebanese University, Hadath, Lebanon

Pascale Salameh

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations INSPECT-LB (Institut National de Santé Publique, d’Épidémiologie Clinique et de Toxicologie-Liban), Beirut, Lebanon, Faculty of Pharmacy, Lebanese University, Hadath, Lebanon, School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Primary Care and Population Health, University of Nicosia Medical School, Nicosia, Cyprus

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.