Mutiso, Victoria N.
Musyimi, Christine W.
Krolinski, Pauline
Neher, Charlotte M.
Musau, Abednego M.
Tele, Albert
Ndetei, David M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Africa Mental Health Foundation (2012)
Article History
First Online: 16 April 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interest.
: Ethical approval was sought from the Ethics Board of the University of Nairobi and Kenyatta National Hospital in Kenya. All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Permission to conduct the study was obtained from the headmasters of the participating schools. Parents or guardians were requested to provide informed consent for children under the age of 18. All children whose parents or guardians consented were also requested to participate by providing a written assent. Only those who had both parental consent and a written assent were involved. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Children absent on the day of assessment were excluded from the study.