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Article History

Received: 25 May 2022

Accepted: 23 November 2022

First Online: 1 December 2022

Declarations

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: The authors declare no competing interests.

: Ethical approvals were obtained from the Biomedical Research Ethics Committee (BREC)(049/15) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the Faculty of Health Sciences Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC 412/2011) at the University of Cape Town, as well as the North West Department of Health, and all research was carried out in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations governing human subjects research and in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. All participants were adults aged 18 years and above who participated voluntarily and provided informed consent to participate in the study.

: Not appplicable.

: The anonymized data will be made available upon request in accordance with the PRIME publication and data management policies available at 2tXQQsV. The data may be requested via the online expression of interest form at or through the Principal Investigator at Peterseni@ukzn.ac.za.

: Patients were interviewed in the formative phase of the PRIME study to inform the development of cultually and contextually appropriate mental health care services at PHC. Additional interviews were conducted with patients in the PRIME cohort study to ascertain their experiences of the counselling intervention, and their suggestions to improve the services.ORCID iD: Inge Petersen 0000–0002-3573–4229.Lara Fairall 0000–0002-7460–4670.

: None declared.