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Adults aged 18 years and older at high risk of depression or self-harm defined by either a Patient Health Questionnaire\u20139 item (PHQ-9) score of 10 or greater, a Generalized Anxiety Disorder\u20137 item (GAD-7) score of 10 or greater, or a score of 2 or greater on the self-harm\/suicide risk question on the PHQ-9. A second cohort of adults not at high risk were selected randomly from the remaining screened population. Data were cleaned and analyzed from April 2022 to February 2023.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Interventions<\/jats:title><jats:p>The 12-month intervention included a community-based antistigma campaign involving all participants and a digital mental health intervention involving only participants at high risk. Primary health care workers were trained to identify and manage participants at high risk using the Mental Health Gap Action Programme guidelines from the World Health Organization.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title><jats:p>The 2 coprimary outcomes assessed at 12 months were mean PHQ-9 scores in the high-risk cohort and mean behavior scores in the combined high-risk and non\u2013high-risk cohorts using the Mental Health Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavior scale.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Altogether, 9928 participants were recruited (3365 at high risk and 6563 not at high risk; 5638 [57%] female and 4290 [43%] male; mean [SD] age, 43 [16] years) with 9057 (91.2%) followed up at 12 months. Mean PHQ-9 scores at 12 months for the high-risk cohort were lower in the intervention vs control groups (2.77 vs 4.48; mean difference, \u22121.71; 95% CI, \u22122.53 to \u22120.89; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;amp;lt;\u2009.001). The remission rate in the high-risk cohort (PHQ-9 and GAD-7 scores &amp;amp;lt;5 and no risk of self-harm) was higher in the intervention vs control group (74.7% vs 50.6%; odds ratio [OR], 2.88; 95% CI, 1.53 to 5.42; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009.001). 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