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Received: 18 January 2024

Accepted: 1 June 2024

First Online: 17 July 2024

Declarations

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: The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work will comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. All procedures are approved by the National Bioethics Committee (Ref: No.4–87/NBC-669/21/400). Written informed consent will be sought from all the participants in this study.

: Not Applicable.

: NH has been a past Trustee of the Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning (PILL), Abaseen Foundation UK, Lancashire Mind UK, and Manchester Global Foundation (MGF). He is an executive member of the Academic Faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, and a NIHR Senior Investigator. He has attended educational events organised by various pharmaceutical industries. NC is the CEO of the Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning. She is an Associate Director of the Global Mental Health and Cultural Psychiatry Research Group, Head of Psychological Medicine at the Remedial Centre Hospital, Consultant Psychiatrist at South City Hospital, Consultant for Manchester Global Foundation and Professor of Psychiatry, Dow University of Health Sciences. NC has received travel grants from Lundbeck and Pfizer pharmaceutical companies to attend one national and one international academic meeting and conference in the last three years. She is a chief investigator and co-investigator for a number of research projects funded by various grant bodies such as the Medical Research Council, Wellcome Trust, NIH-R, and Global Challenges Research Fund.