Participants characteristics
In total, 195 participants agreed to join the study. The CONSORT diagram is reported in the online supplementary material. As for the demographic characteristics, 76·4 % of the study sample were females, and 75·3 % had Bachelor’s University degree or above. The majority lived in South Lebanon (49·7 %), followed by Mount Lebanon (20 %) and Greater Beirut (12·3 %). Most of the participants joined the study in February, March and November 2021 (35·9 %, 24·6 % and 19·5 %, respectively). The median age (inter-quartile range) of the whole sample was 26 years (10) and the mean BMI was 25·46 ± 4·62 kg/m