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ArticlePLOS mental health2025

Sharing is healing: The power of storytelling to transform mental health in the field of neglected tropical diseases.

Anil Fastenau, Rhea Brüggemann, Nervana Ibrahim, Abdul Salam, Lucy Mckane, Ali Murtaza, Fabian Schlumberger, Inés Egino, Daniel Wainstock, Srilekha Penna and 5 more

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Article in PLOS mental health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Anil FastenauMarie Adelaide Leprosy Center, Karachi, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8495-8227
Rhea BrüggemannMarie Adelaide Leprosy Center, Karachi, Pakistan.
Nervana IbrahimMarie Adelaide Leprosy Center, Karachi, Pakistan.
Abdul SalamMarie Adelaide Leprosy Center, Karachi, Pakistan.
Lucy MckaneMarie Adelaide Leprosy Center, Karachi, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7711-7256
Ali MurtazaMarie Adelaide Leprosy Center, Karachi, Pakistan.
Fabian SchlumbergerMarie Adelaide Leprosy Center, Karachi, Pakistan.
Inés EginoAnesvad Foundation, Bilbao, Spain.
Daniel WainstockPontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0011-9533
Srilekha PennaGerman Leprosy and Tuberculosis Relief Association (GLRA) India, New Delhi, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8377-3145
Ngozi EkekeRedAid Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria.
Daniel Gonzalo Eslava AlbarracinLa Escuela de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD), Bogota, Colombia.
Hamideh EbrahimiLahore School of Nursing (LSN), University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8032-9305
Alexandra AsboeckMarie Adelaide Leprosy Center, Karachi, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2782-1266
Matthew WillisMarie Adelaide Leprosy Center, Karachi, Pakistan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1475-9915

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID41662044
PMCPMC12798246

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