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Article History

Received: 2 February 2023

Accepted: 18 May 2023

First Online: 23 May 2023

Declarations

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: The authors declare no competing interests.

: Ethical clearance was obtained from the “Institutional Research Ethics Review Board (IRB) of the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Arba Minch University, with reference number IRB/1285/2022. A letter of permission was obtained from the Arba Minch town Health Department. All the methods were performed following the principles of the Helsinki Declaration. Postpartum mothers with depressive symptoms were counseled by data collectors and supervisors to visit nearby health institutions.During data collection, each respondent was informed of the purpose, scope, nature of the topic, and expected outcome of the study. A voluntary written informed consent and a signature were obtained before starting the interview. The name of the respondent was not used by the questioners except as a unique code for the purpose of communication, and collected data were stored safely.

: Written informed consent was obtained from all the study participants before starting data collection.

: It is not applicable.