Bitew, Tesera https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2270-9542
Keynejad, Roxanne
Sorsdahl, Katherine
Myers, Bronwyn
Honikman, Simone
Medhin, Girmay
Fekadu, Eshcolewyine
Mulushoa, Adiyam
Howard, Louise M.
Girma, Fikirte
Hanlon, Charlotte
Funding for this research was provided by:
DELTAS Africa Initiative (DEL-15-01)
Article History
Received: 11 June 2024
Accepted: 9 June 2025
First Online: 1 October 2025
Declarations
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: Our feasibility trial protocol was registered on the Pan-African clinical trials registry, (PACTR): registration number: PACTR202008712234907 on 18/08/2020; . We received ethical approval from the scientific committee of CDT-Africa and the Institutional Review Board of Addis Ababa University, College of Health Sciences (IRB reference: 049/19/CDT). All participants provided written (thumbprint for non-literates) informed consent.
: Not applicable.
: Investigators contributing to this work were supported by Debre Markos University and Injibara Universities (TB), a King’s IoPPN Clinician Investigator Scholarship (RK); the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Homelessness and Mental Health in Africa (NIHR134325) and the SPARK project (NIHR200842) and Wellcome Trust (222154/Z20/Z and 223615/Z/21/Z) to CH; joint research grant funding from the Medical Research Council (MRC), Wellcome Trust NIHR and United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (MR/M014290/1; MR/R018464/1) (KS, BM).