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Article History

Received: 14 September 2021

Accepted: 13 December 2021

First Online: 27 January 2022

Declarations

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: The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. All procedures involving human subjects/patients were approved by the University Hospitals of Cleveland Institutional Review Board (UHCMC IRB), <i>UHCMC IRB number: 05–17-16</i> and the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences Office of Research and Publications Document 2017-12-06/AEC/Vol.X11/87. Informed consent was obtained from all RCT participants prior to their screening and enrollment.

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: In the last 3 years, MS has received research grants from Nuromate, Otsuka, Alkermes, International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). MS has been a consultant to Alkermes, Otsuka, Janssen, Myriad, Health Analytics, Frontline Medical Communications. MS has received royalties from Springer Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Oxford Press, UpToDate. MS has also received compensation for the preparation of continuing medical education (CME) Activities form Physician’s Institute, MCM Education, CMEology, Potomac Center for Medical Education, Global Medical Education, Creative Educational Concepts. The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.