Bitew, Tesera http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2270-9542
Keynejad, Roxanne
Honikman, Simone
Sorsdahl, Katherine
Myers, Bronwyn
Fekadu, Abebaw
Hanlon, Charlotte
Funding for this research was provided by:
Addis Ababa University (MR/PSY/096/2010)
Article History
Received: 5 March 2020
Accepted: 18 June 2020
First Online: 22 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval (ref. number: 087/11/psy dated 07/09/2017) was obtained from the Institutional Review Board of Addis Ababa University, College of Health Sciences. Written, informed consent was obtained from all literate participants. Non-literate participants indicated consent with a thumb print including women from the age of 15–17 years since the Ethiopian Civil Code stipulates that women from 15 to 18 years are entitled to be legally capable once they have been married. Women with high antenatal depressive symptom scores (PHQ-9 score of 15 or more) and those who expressed suicidal ideation were referred to primary health care facilities, where the PRIME project (PRogramme for Improving Mental health carE) provided further investigation and treatment for free.
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: The authors have no competing interests.