About the Authors

Carmen H. Logie

carmen.logie@utoronto.ca

Affiliations Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Women's College Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

CarolAnn Daniel

Affiliation Faculty of Social Work, Adelphi University, New York, United States of America

Peter A. Newman

Affiliation Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

James Weaver

Affiliation Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Mona R. Loutfy

Affiliation Women's College Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Competing Interests

Dr. Mona Loutfy is a PLoS ONE Academic Editor. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CL CD. Performed the experiments: CL CD. Analyzed the data: JW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW. Wrote the paper: CL CD PAN JW MRL. Principal investigator: CL. Coinvestigator: CD. International mentor for the study: PAN. Conceived the idea for the trial: CL CD. Led writing the manuscript: CL. Contributed substantially to the writing of the manuscript: CD. Conducted data analysis and contributed substantially to writing the methods and results: JW. Contributed to the study design and methods: PAN MRL.