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Authors
Chandra, Prabha S.
Parameshwaran, Soumya
Satyanarayana, Veena A.
Varghese, Meiya
Liberti, Lauren
Duggal, Mona
Singh, Pushpendra
Jeon, Sangchoon
Reynolds, Nancy R.
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (R21MH100939)
Indian Council of Medical Research (HIV/INDOUS/152/9/2012-ECD-II)
Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (ITRA/15(57)/Mobile/HumanSense/01)
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Article History
Received: 27 November 2017
Accepted: 7 March 2018
First Online: 17 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: The protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Boards/Ethics Committees (IRB/ECs) at NIMHANS, Yale University, and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR); each participant provided written informed consent prior to participant enrolment and at each call recording. To ensure that the study minimised risks to the respondents, several safeguards were taken including a detailed consent process that involved explaining risks of having a mobile phone (such as questions from husband and family and inadvertent disclosure). Written standard operating procedures were in place to guide staff on necessary actions if women report suicidality, serious mental health concerns, and/or interpersonal violence during any assessment or during the intervention. A password was provided to the participant to ensure that the phone calls were being attended only by the respondent and the respondent was required to say the password before each telephonic session is initiated. In addition, calls were made only at respondents’ convenience.
