Funding for this research was provided by:
AID from the UK government as part of initiative of the Programme for Improving Mental Health Care (PO 5248)
Article History
Received: 7 December 2018
Accepted: 19 February 2019
First Online: 4 March 2019
Authors’ information
: TB: Assistant professor in Mental Health Epidemiology, Debre Markos University, Institute of Education and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Psychology, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.CH: Reader in Global Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK, and adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Centre for Drug Development and Therapeutic Trials for Africa; Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.GM: Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Aklilu Lemma Institute of Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia AF: Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Centre for Drug Development and Therapeutic Trials for Africa; Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
: Ethical approval (ref. number: 024/14/psy dated 23/03/14) 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 17 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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