Experience and perceptions of mental ill-health in people with epilepsy in rural Ethiopia: A qualitative study

Ruth Tsigebrhan; Charles R. Newton; Medhin Selamu; Charlotte Hanlon

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0310542

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Experience and perceptions of mental ill-health in people with epilepsy in rural Ethiopia: A qualitative study

Ruth Tsigebrhan ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruth Tsigebrhan, Charlotte Hanlon

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: r_tessera@yahoo.com

Affiliations College of Health Sciences, Department of Psychiatry and WHO Collaborating Centre in Mental Health Research and Capacity-Building, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Centre for Innovative Drug Development and Therapeutic Trials for Africa (CDT-Africa), College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4957-5820

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Charles R. Newton ,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ CRN and MS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Medhin Selamu ,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ CRN and MS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Centre for Innovative Drug Development and Therapeutic Trials for Africa (CDT-Africa), College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Charlotte Hanlon

Contributed equally to this work with: Ruth Tsigebrhan, Charlotte Hanlon

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Health Sciences, Department of Psychiatry and WHO Collaborating Centre in Mental Health Research and Capacity-Building, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Centre for Innovative Drug Development and Therapeutic Trials for Africa (CDT-Africa), College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Centre for Global Mental Health, Health Services and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
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Experience and perceptions of mental ill-health in people with epilepsy in rural Ethiopia: A qualitative study

Ruth Tsigebrhan,
Charles R. Newton,
Medhin Selamu,
Charlotte Hanlon

Published: December 13, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310542

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