About the Authors

Eng-Zhuan Ban

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

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

Munn-Sann Lye

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lyems9@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

Pei Pei Chong

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

Yoke-Yeow Yap

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

Siew Ying Crystale Lim

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Faculty of Applied Sciences, UCSI University, Cheras, Malaysia

Hejar Abdul Rahman

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.