About the Authors

Ali Hadianfar

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Student Research Committee, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran, Department of Biostatistics, School of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

Razieh Yousefi

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Student Research Committee, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran, Department of Biostatistics, School of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

Milad Delavary

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, Laboratoire BioNR and Centre Intersectoriel en Santé Durable (CISD), Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada

Vahid Fakoor

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

Fakoor@um.ac.ir

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

Mohammad Taghi Shakeri

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

Martin Lavallière

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, Laboratoire BioNR and Centre Intersectoriel en Santé Durable (CISD), Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.