Recruitment and Baseline Characteristics of Participants in the Social, Emotional, and Economic Empowerment Through Knowledge of Group Support Psychotherapy Study (SEEK-GSP): Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu   ¹ , MMED(Psych), PhD ;   Seggane Musisi   ¹ , FRCPC ;   Kizito Wamala   ² , MSc ;   James Okello   ³ , MMED(Psych), PhD ;   Sheila Ndyanabangi   ^{4 †} , MBChB, MPH ;   Josephine Birungi   ⁵ , MBChB ;   Mastula Nanfuka   ⁵ , MBChB ;   Michael Etukoit   ⁵ , MBChB ;   Ramin Mojtabai   ⁶ , MD, PhD ;   Jean Nachega   ^{7, 8, 9, 10} , MD, PhD ;   Ofir Harari   ¹¹ , PhD ;   Edward Mills   ¹² , PhD

¹ Department of Psychiatry, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

² Center for Victims of Torture, Department of Psychology, Gulu, Uganda

³ Department of Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda

⁴ Mental Health Program, Ministry of Health of Uganda, Kampala, Uganda

⁵ The AIDS Support Organization (TASO), Kampala, Uganda

⁶ Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg's School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

⁷ Department of Epidemiology, Pittsburg Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburg, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

⁸ Stellenbosch Center for Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

⁹ Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg's School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

¹⁰ Department of International Health, Bloomberg's School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

¹¹ MTEK Sciences Inc, Vancouver, BC, Canada

¹² Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

†deceased