About the Authors

Laura Asher

laura.asher@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliations Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Abebaw Fekadu

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Centre for Affective Disorders, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Charlotte Hanlon

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Center for Global Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Gemechu Mideksa

Affiliation RAPID (Rehabilitation And Prevention Initiative against Disabilities) CBR Project, Adama, Ethiopia

Julian Eaton

Affiliations Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, CBM West Africa Regional Office, Lome, Togo

Vikram Patel

Affiliations Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Sangath, Goa, India

Mary J. De Silva

Affiliation Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LA AF CH VP MDS. Performed the experiments: LA AF CH JE GM MDS. Analyzed the data: LA CH MDS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JE GM VP MDS. Wrote the paper: LA AF CH JE MDS VP. Wrote the intervention manual and training materialsl: LA. Edited the intervention manual and training materials: AF CH GM VP MDS.