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Article History

Received: 4 January 2021

Accepted: 21 April 2021

First Online: 1 May 2021

Declarations

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: The trial in which the data were collected is registered with the Controlled Trials Registry of India (CTRI/2018/02/012047, assigned 21/02/2018) and ISRCTN, assigned 22/02/2018). Ethical approval was granted by the UCL Research Ethics Committee (3546/003, 27/09/2017) and by PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action, and Research) Institutional Ethics Committee (25/12/2017). We followed WHO guidelines for research on domestic violence against women [], and on sexual violence []. Informed consent was obtained from all participants. Interviewers were trained in Good Clinical Practice for research ethics and participant protection (Scientia Clinical Services, 14th February 2019). They provided a participant information sheet, discussed the nature of the interview and right to withdraw, and obtained signed consent. When survivors disclosed violence, intervention protocols included safety assessment, counselling, liaison with healthcare, police, and legal services, and developing follow-up plans for the survivor and her family (all of these with permission from the survivor).

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.