About the Authors

Mwawi Ng’oma

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mwawichance@yahoo.com

Affiliations Department of Mental Health, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, St John of God Hospitaller Services, Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi

Samantha Meltzer-Brody

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Ellen Chirwa

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Midwifery, University of Malawi Kamuzu College of Nursing, Blantyre, Malawi

Robert C. Stewart

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mental Health, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

Competing Interests

We indeed received financial support in the form of grant funding from Johnson and Johnson Corporate Citizen Trust through University of North Carolina, United States of America. Johnson and Johnson Corporate Citizen Trust, a philanthropy arm of Johnson and Johnson is responsible for managing Johnson and Johnson's Global Community Impact programs and activities across Europe, The Middle East and Africa (refer to the link; https://www.jjcct.org/about/). This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.