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Article History

Received: 6 June 2019

Accepted: 1 February 2020

First Online: 21 February 2020

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Permission has been obtained from the Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Gujarat for project implementation and data collection. Indian Law Society’s Ethics committee approved the study (ILS/14/2017) and an additional ethical approval was obtained from the local ethics committee from Hospital for Mental health, Ahmedabad. The trial is registered prospectively with the clinical trial registry, India and the Clinical Trial Registry number- CTRI/2017/03/008139.Before approaching individual participants, data collection staff informs the head of the village council about the study and the purpose of the data collection. Written informed consent (or thumb impression with a signature of witness in case of illiterate participants) is obtained from each participant enrolled in the trial after providing information about the study including the purpose of the study, benefits, and risks for the participant and information about withdrawal from the study. A copy of informed consent is given to each research participant. Gatekeeper consent and Participant consent forms are uploaded as Additional files  and .

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.