1. Janice Probst () is a distinguished professor emerita in the Department of Health Services Policy and Management, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, in Columbia.
2. Whitney Zahnd is a research assistant professor in the Rural and Minority Health Research Center of the University of South Carolina.
3. Charity Breneman was a postdoctoral fellow in the Rural and Minority Health Research Center of the University of South Carolina at the time the study was performed.