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Heidi Tranter1,2, Madeleine France Ratcliffe3, Thomas Price1

  • 1GM.Digital Research Unit, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Frontiers in Digital Health
|August 6, 2026
PubMed

Keywords:
PPIEco-developmentcultural sensitivitymental healthmental health data

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