Table 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria	Exclusion Criteria
For Mental Health Professionals
• Consultant Psychiatrists with at least five years of clinical experience in managing and treating patients with psychiatric illnesses. • Clinical psychologists with at least two years of clinical experience in managing and treating patients with psychiatric illnesses.	• Consultant psychiatrists with less than five years of clinical experience • Psychologists/clinical psychologists with less than two years of experience • Unwilling psychiatrists and clinical psychologists.
For Screened Couples (Husbands and Wives) with Perinatal Distress
• All women visiting either a gynaecological and/or psychiatric ward for consultation with a medically confirmed pregnancy or have a live child with less than or equal to one year of age or having both antenatal and postnatal conditions. • Women are accompanied by a spouse, and both are willing to participate in the study. • The inclusion criteria hold screened couples with ≥ 11 cut-off score on EPDS, ≥ 10 cut-off score on GAD-7 visiting in gynecological ward. • Eligible couples with > 20 for bipolar disorder, > 13 for psychotic disorder cut-off scores on the WERCAP screen • Spouses also fulfilled the diagnostic criteria via SCID-5TR.	• The willing wives screened positive who were either in unstable physical or mental conditions or were accompanied by a relative other than a spouse, were in the first week of postpartum. • unwilling spouse. • Scores < 11 cut-off on EPDS, < 10 cut-off score on GAD-7. • Scores < 20 cut-offs for bipolar and < 13 cut-offs for psychotic disorder on the WERCAP screen. • Spouse not fulfilling the diagnostic criteria via SCID-5TR.