Assessing suicidality during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: Lessons learned from adaptation and implementation of a telephone-based suicide risk assessment and response protocol in Malawi

• Kelsey R. Landrum ,

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

  * E-mail: klandrum@email.unc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9870-8271

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• Christopher F. Akiba,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Brian W. Pence,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Harriet Akello,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UNC Project Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Hamis Chikalimba,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UNC Project Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Josée M. Dussault,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7434-2159

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• Mina C. Hosseinipour,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Kingsley Kanzoole,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Abwenzi Paza Umoyo/Partners in Health, Neno, Malawi

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• Kazione Kulisewa,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Kamuzu University of Health, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Jullita Kenala Malava,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UNC Project Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Michael Udedi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Noncommunicable Disease and Mental Health Unit, Malawi Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Chifundo C. Zimba,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UNC Project Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Bradley N. Gaynes

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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