Siew Mooi Ching: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Writing – original draft
Kar Yean Ng: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – original draft
Kai Wei Lee:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9737-8066
Role: Formal analysisRole: Methodology
Anne Yee:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9835-6798
Role: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Poh Ying Lim:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7765-4630
Role: Formal analysisRole: Methodology
Hisham Ranita: Role: Data curationRole: Resources
Navin Kumar Devaraj: Role: Formal analysisRole: Writing – review & editing
Pei Boon Ooi: Role: SoftwareRole: Writing – review & editing
Ai Theng Cheong:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3895-530X
Role: ConceptualizationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Ali Rostami: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS One
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
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)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
14
October
2021
Publication date Collection: 2021
Volume: 16
Issue: 10
Electronic Location Identifier: e0257983
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti
Putra Malaysia, Serdang Selangor, Malaysia
[2
]
Malaysian Research Institute on Ageing, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor,
Malaysia
[3
]
Department of Medical Sciences, School of Medical and Life Sciences, Sunway University,
Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia
[4
]
Centre for Research, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Selaiyur,
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
[5
]
Department of Pre-Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti
Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kajang, Malaysia
[6
]
Centre for Research on Communicable Diseases, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kajang,
Malaysia
[7
]
Department of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia
[8
]
Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti
Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
[9
]
Universiti Malaya Library, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Babol University of Medical Science, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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Publisher ID:
PONE-D-21-21203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0257983
PMC ID: 8516240
PubMed ID: 34648526
SO-VID: 176c9b03-024a-48c7-aa94-f8d7fcaea0b0
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