<p>Authors to correct 'CNDC' in the second sentence in introductory section.</p><p>To assess 'impact' of &nbsp;psychosocial aspects on treatment adherence in the second objective, suggests cause and effect testing, for which a cross sectional study design is ill suited. I recommend the authors rewrite this objective to align with the study objective.</p><p>Authors utilized inferential statistics hence study design should be best left as Cross- sectional Study design.</p><p>In Results section, the authors were silent on the first objective - assessing psychosocial aspects of CNCDs. No proportions were stated.</p>