Participant Recruitment and Screening
We recruited the participants using both offline and web-based publicity. We displayed flyers in residential hostels, research buildings, and lecture halls at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. A press release helped with coverage in newspapers and social media.The publicity material included a website link to join this study. The link opened a web page that provided information regarding the study and accepted the email ID of the interested participants. Over the next 3 steps, the web page collected the demographic data, baseline Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) score [