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Evaluation of the impacts of a district-level mental health care plan on contact coverage, detection and individual outcomes in rural Uganda: a mixed methods approach

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-019-0319-2

Published Online: 2019-09-30

Published Print: 2019-12

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Authors

Nakku, J. E. M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0611-1102
Rathod, S. D.

Garman, E. C.

Ssebunnya, J.

Kangere, S.

De Silva, M.

Patel, V.

Lund, C.

Kigozi, F. N.
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DFID
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Article History

Received: 11 January 2019

Accepted: 17 September 2019

First Online: 30 September 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: All participants provided written informed consent by signing a study consent form. For those who were illiterate, the contents of the consent form were read to them in local language by a research assistant before they appended a thumb print. All patients who were found to be at risk of suicide were referred to the mental health specialist at the district hospital. All adverse events during the cohort study were documented in a register of adverse events.Ethical approval of the protocols for all the studies was obtained from Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda), the Uganda National Council of Science and Technology (Kampala, Uganda), the University of Cape Town (South Africa), and the World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland). Institutional approval was also obtained from the district administration for all the studies.

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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