Temmingh, Henk http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7688-0759
Susser, Ezra
Mall, Sumaya
Campbell, Megan
Sibeko, Goodman
Stein, Dan J.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Mental Health (5UO1MH096754, 5UO1MH096754)
Article History
Received: 28 October 2019
Accepted: 7 August 2020
First Online: 14 August 2020
Conflict of interest
: HT, ES, SM, MC, and GS and have not received any financial or commercial related compensation that can be considered to represent a conflict of interest. DJS is supported by the Medical Research Council of South Africa and has received research grants and/or consultancy honoraria from: Abbott, Astrazeneca, Eli-Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, Lundbeck, Orion, Pfizer, Pharmacia, Roche, Servier, Solvay, Sumitomo, Sun, Takeda, Tikvah, and Wyeth. DJS is also on the scientific advisory board of the TLC Foundation for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviours, the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), and the South African Depression and Anxiety Support Group. SM has received incentive funding for rated researchers from the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) (Grant No. 119375).
: The Human Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa granted approval to the study (HREC No. 049/2013). In addition, ethical approval was also obtained from the Walter Sisulu University Research Ethics and Biosafety Committee, The Rhodes University Ethical Standards Committee, The Columbia University Internal Review Board and the University of Washington Institutional Review Board. To ensure that participants understood and had sufficient decisional capacity to understand the nature of the study, the University of California, San Diego Brief Assessment of Capacity to Consent (UBACC) questionnaire [30] was administered to all participants.