About the Authors

Seyed Sahab Aarabi

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

☯ These authors contributed equally to this work and are co-first authors.

‡ NA and LG contributed equally to this work and share corresponding authorship.

Affiliations National Center for Health Insurance Research, Tehran, Iran, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran

Farbod Semnani

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

☯ These authors contributed equally to this work and are co-first authors.

‡ NA and LG contributed equally to this work and share corresponding authorship.

Affiliations National Center for Health Insurance Research, Tehran, Iran, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran

Zahra Aminzade

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

Affiliations National Center for Health Insurance Research, Tehran, Iran, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU), Tehran, Iran, Endometriosis Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Tehran, Iran

Reza Mehrizi

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Center for Health Insurance Research, Tehran, Iran, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Gholamnezhad

Roles Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Clinical Research Development Unit, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Yasuj, Iran

Raham Armand

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Behbahan Faculty of Medical Sciences, Behbahan, Iran

Nezam Armand

Roles Project administration, Resources

lghamkhar@yahoo.com (LG); armandnezam@gmail.com (NA)

‡ NA and LG contributed equally to this work and share corresponding authorship.

Affiliation Department of Health Management, Policy, and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Leila Ghamkhar

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lghamkhar@yahoo.com (LG); armandnezam@gmail.com (NA)

‡ NA and LG contributed equally to this work and share corresponding authorship.

Affiliation National Center for Health Insurance Research, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.