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Received: 24 July 2017

Accepted: 23 April 2018

First Online: 4 May 2018

Authors’ information

: SDA is a senior lecturer at the Department of Medical Humanities of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo and an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Mental Health at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. This work is related to her PhD project which was supervised by AFJ, a Professorial Fellow and the Head of the Population Mental Health Group at the Centre for Mental Health at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, and NJR, an Associate Professor in this Centre.

: Approval for this study was obtained from the Ethics Review Committees of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo (Protocol No: EC 13–024), and the Health Sciences Human Ethics Sub-committee of the University of Melbourne (ID: 1239149). As the identity of the participants remained anonymous in the study, the use of a passive consent approach, where returning a filled questionnaire implied consent to participate in the study, was considered appropriate. The participant information sheet provided details regarding this procedure.

: Not applicable. The identity of the participants remained anonymous throughout the study.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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