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Effectiveness of non-medical health worker-led counselling on psychological distress: a randomized controlled trial in rural Nepal – ADDENDUM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2019

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Keywords: Common mental disorders, lay counselling, Nepal, randomized controlled trial, task shifting, addendum

The authors of Markkula, et al (Reference Markkula, Lehti, Adhikari, Peña, Heliste, Mikkonen, Rautanen, Salama and Guragain2019), would like to acknowledge the help and support given throughout the process by Dr Bhogendra Sharma, President of Centre for Victims of Torture. They also wish to thank Dr Ram Prasad Sapkota, Dr Elina Hemminki, Dr Jaana Suvisaari and Dr Ulla Ashorn for their valuable inputs in earlier phases of the study.

References

Markkula, N, Lehti, V, Adhikari, P, Peña, S, Heliste, J, Mikkonen, E, Rautanen, M, Salama, E, Guragain, B (2019). Effectiveness of non-medical health worker-led counselling on psychological distress: a randomized controlled trial in rural Nepal. Global Mental Health 6, e15. doi: 10.1017/gmh.2019.15.Google Scholar