Attempted suicide in Sri Lanka - An epidemiological study of household and community factors

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We would like to thank the field workers in Sri Lanka for contributing to the work described in this manuscript; Sarath Lionel for logistical support; SACTRC staff particularly Dilani Pinnaduwa, Indunil Abeyrathna, and Shashikala Assalaarachchi, for organisational support; Mala Ranawake and Lal Muttuwatte for technical support. We thank the Provincial Ministry of Health Services and the directors, consultant physicians, and medical and nursing staff of the study hospitals for their support to the trial. We would also like to thank Dr George Leckie and Prof Bill Browne from the Centre for Multilevel Modelling for their advice on this analysis. KH is a National Institute for Health Research Senior Investigator. DWK is an Economic and Social Research Council postdoctoral fellow. The support of the Wellcome Trust and Economic and Social Research Council (UK) are gratefully acknowledged. This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust [grant numbers WT099874MA to DWK, GR090958 ]. The funders were not involved in the study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation of the data or the write up of the manuscript.