Souraya, Sally
Hanlon, Charlotte
Asher, Laura
Funding for this research was provided by:
Wellcome Trust (100142/Z/12/Z)
Article History
Received: 23 February 2018
Accepted: 1 August 2018
First Online: 22 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was obtained from the Addis Ababa University College of Health Sciences Institutional Review Board (reference 039/13/PSY) and from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Research Ethics Committee (reference 6408). Written informed consent, or a witnessed thumbprint for those who were illiterate, was obtained from all study participants. Prior to conducting the interviews with people with mental illness, capacity to consent to participation in the study was evaluated by a psychiatrist.
: Written informed consent for publication was obtained from all participants in this study. The consent form is held by Addis Ababa University and is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief.
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