About the Authors

Josna Soyuz

Contributed equally to this work with: Josna Soyuz, Teddy Andrews Jaihind Jothikaran, S. Elstin Anbu Raj

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

Affiliation Department of Social and Health Innovation, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Teddy Andrews Jaihind Jothikaran

Contributed equally to this work with: Josna Soyuz, Teddy Andrews Jaihind Jothikaran, S. Elstin Anbu Raj

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

teddy.andrews@manipal.edu

Affiliation Department of Social and Health Innovation, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

K. K. Sakkir

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Global Public Health Policy and Governance, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Anish V. Cherian

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychiatric Social Work, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences(NIMHANS), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lena Ashok

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Social and Health Innovation, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Varalakshmi Chandrasekaran

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

Affiliation Department of Global Public Health Policy and Governance, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Boby Augustin

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

Affiliation Department of Social Work, Navajyothi college, Cherupuzha, University of Kannur, Kannur, Kerala, India

S. Elstin Anbu Raj

Contributed equally to this work with: Josna Soyuz, Teddy Andrews Jaihind Jothikaran, S. Elstin Anbu Raj

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Health technology and Informatics, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.