About the Authors

Behrooz Astaneh

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

astanehb@mcmaster.ca

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Hadi Raeisi Shahraki

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Health, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran

Vala Astaneh

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Sciences, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Gordon Guyatt

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact and Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.