Hooda, Misha
Stead, Madison
Nuwagaba, Gabriel
Natukunda, Sylvia
Birungi, Constance
Bugeza, William
Tushabe, Maureen
Gogineni, Srija
Nansera, Denis
Muyindike, Winnie
Mwanga-Amumpaire, Juliet
Sundararajan, Radhika https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8451-2243
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH132440)
Article History
Received: 30 June 2025
Accepted: 3 November 2025
First Online: 29 November 2025
Declarations
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: This study was conducted following ethical standards and was approved by the Mbarara University of Science and Technology Research Ethics Committee (MUST-2022–646), Weill Cornell Medicine Research Ethics Committee (22–09025268), and the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (HS2780ES). All participants provided written informed consent before participation in both the parent trial and this qualitative sub-study.
: Not applicable, as the manuscript does not contain any identifiable individual data, images, or personal information requiring consent for publication.
: Radhika Sundararajan is an Associate Editor for Implementation Science Communications.