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Received: 11 July 2018

Accepted: 7 January 2019

First Online: 15 January 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This study was approved by the research ethics and effectiveness committee of the NFMHS (AREE/290814, 29th August 2014) and Faculty of Health Sciences Research Ethics committee Trinity College Dublin (8th September 2014). The study complied with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, revised in 2008. All participants were assessed by their treating consultant psychiatrists as having the capacity to consent to the research study. All participants were supplied with a written letter of information concerning the study. After a period of 7 days, all gave written, informed, and competent consent in keeping with the approval of the research ethics committees.

: This manuscript does not contain any individual person’s data which could be readily identifiable in any form (including any individual details, images or videos) i.e. no individually identifiable material was included. And all patients gave consent to publish the study's findings.

: All authors declare that they have no financial involvement (including employment, fees, share ownership) or affiliation with any organization whose financial interests may be affected by material in the manuscript, or which might potentially bias it. HGK is a member of the editorial board of BMC Psychiatry but has had no editorial involvement with the publication of this article.

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