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Authors
Boopalan, Deenadayalan
Inbaraj, Ganagarajan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3954-9960
Parthasarathy, Rajani
Venugopal, Aparna
Govindaraj, Sarath
Arshad, Faheem
Vasudev, Aparna
Shahed, Rehan
Thanissery, Nithin
Asranna, Ajay
Thomas, Priya Treesa
Kulkarni, Girish Baburao
Sinha, Sanjib
Alladi, Suvarna
Rao, Girish N
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Government of Karnataka (Grant No. Amount (A) PR/07/2022-23)
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Article History
Received: 1 December 2025
Accepted: 26 May 2026
First Online: 17 June 2026
Declarations
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: The larger KaBHI pilot and associated data collection/reporting activities were reviewed and approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) (Ref. No. NIMHANS/36th IEC(BS&NS DIV)/2022 dated 08.07.2022). The study and related activities were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the Institutional Ethics Committee and with the Declaration of Helsinki and applicable national guidelines and regulations governing research involving human participants.
: Informed consent procedures followed the approved ethics protocol and institutional guidelines. For directly screened or interviewed participants, consent was obtained prior to participation. Where written consent was impractical during community awareness activities, verbal consent procedures were used in accordance with the institutional ethics approval.
: Not applicable. The manuscript reports aggregate programme information and does not contain individually identifiable participant data.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
