Technology-Based Stepped Care to Stem Transgender Adolescent Risk Transmission: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial (TechStep)

Cathy J Reback   ^{1, 2 *} , PhD ;   Joshua A Rusow   ¹ , MSW ;   Demetria Cain   ³ , MPH, PhD ;   David Benkeser   ⁴ , PhD ;   Sean Arayasirikul   ^{5, 6} , PhD ;   Lisa Hightow-Weidman   ⁷ , MPH, MD ;   Keith J Horvath   ^{8 *} , PhD

¹ Friends Research Institute, Inc, Los Angeles, CA, United States

² UCLA Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

³ PRIDE Health Research Consortium, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States

⁴ Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States

⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Developmental Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁶ Trans Research Unit for Equity, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁷ Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

⁸ Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States

*these authors contributed equally