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Received: 23 November 2017

Accepted: 26 April 2018

First Online: 16 July 2018

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: Jane Collier is a Specialist Occupational Therapist (OT) with over 20 years experience working within the NHS. She is currently the OT lead with cardiovascular rehabilitation services for the Guy’s & St. Thomas’s NHS Hospital Trust. She is a member of the UK-EMT Rehabilitation Cell, and completed an MSc in Global Health & Social Justice in 2015 with King’s College London.Hanna Kienzler is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine at King’s College London. She has a long-standing academic interest in the field of global health, in connection with organised violence, ethnic conflict, and complex emergencies, and their health and mental health outcomes. She conducts ethnographic research on the impact of war and trauma on women in Kosovo, on new mental health treatment options for torture survivors in Nepal, and on humanitarian and mental health interventions in the occupied Palestinian territory and Kosovo. She holds two major grants: a Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award to investigate community-based support for persons with mental health problems in Palestine, Ghana and the UK and a RCUK grant to build research capacity in the field of mental health in conflict affected areas of the Middle East with particular focus on Palestine.

: Ethics approval was acquired from the Research Ethics Board at King’s College London (Ref KCL/14/15–38). Study participants were provided with a Consent Form for signature.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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