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Attribution. Afia Ali; Emma Mckenzie; Zara Rasoul; Angela Hassiotis; Stefan Priebe; Brynmor Lloyd-Evans et al. (2021). One-to-one volunteer befriending to reduce symptoms of depression in people with intellectual disability: a feasibility RCT. NIHR Journals Library. Copyright © 2021 Ali et al. This work was produced by Ali et al. under the terms of a commissioning contract issued by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. This is an Open Access publication distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0 licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaption in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. For attribution the title, original author(s), the publication source – NIHR Journals Library, and the DOI of the publication must be cited. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. NCBI Bookshelf NBK574483. CC BY 4.0. Original source ↗. Text reproduced from the Bookshelf XML without changing wording; figures, images and supplements are not reproduced.

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