van Loggerenberg, Francois
Akena, Dickens
Alinaitwe, Racheal
Birabwa-Oketcho, Harriet
Méndez, Camilo Andrés Cabarique
Gómez-Restrepo, Carlos
Kulenović, Alma Džubur
Selak, Nejra
Kiseljaković, Meliha
Musisi, Seggane
Nakasujja, Noeline
Sewankambo, Nelson K.
Priebe, Stefan
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health and Care Research (16/137/97, 16/137/97, 16/137/97, 16/137/97, 16/137/97, 16/137/97, 16/137/97, 16/137/97, 16/137/97, 16/137/97, 16/137/97, 16/137/97, 16/137/97)
Article History
Received: 17 February 2023
Accepted: 30 October 2023
First Online: 16 November 2023
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All study procedures were conducted in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations in the Declaration of Helsinki. The study was approved by the following ethics committees prior to any fieldwork taking place: 1. Approved 21/07/2020, The Clinical Centre University of Sarajevo School of Medicine Research Ethics Committee (Eticki komitet Kliničkog centra Univerziteta u Sarajevu, Bolnička 25, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; +387 (0)33 298 722; et.komitet@kcus.ba), ref: Research project NIHR Global Health Group on Developing Psycho- Social Interventions DIALOG+ in Primary Health Care. 2. Approved 21/12/2020, Institutional Research and Ethics Committee, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, ref: “NIHR Global Health Group on Developing Psycho-Social Interventions, DIALOG+” DIALOG+ in Primary Care. 3. Approved 05/11/2020, Makerere University, College of Health Sciences School of Medicine Research and Ethics Committee, ref: 2020 − 195. 4. Approved 18/12/2020, Uganda National Council of Science and Technology, ref: HS1116ES. 5. Approved 27/01/2021, Queen Mary Ethics of Research Committee, ref: QMERC20.101.Written informed consent was obtained from all participants once the study had been fully explained and capacity to consent had been confirmed, prior to any data collection. This study was very low risk for harm and no harm to participants was expected; however, all participants could withdraw at any time without any negative consequences, especially with regards to their primary care provision.