A Text Messaging Intervention for Coping With Social Distancing During COVID-19 (StayWell at Home): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Caroline Astrid Figueroa   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Rosa Hernandez-Ramos   ¹ , BA ;   Claire Elizabeth Boone   ² , MPH ;   Laura Gómez-Pathak   ¹ , BA ;   Vivian Yip   ¹ ;   Tiffany Luo   ¹ , BA ;   Valentín Sierra   ¹ , BA ;   Jing Xu   ^{3, 4} , PhD ;   Bibhas Chakraborty   ^{3, 5, 6} , PhD ;   Sabrina Darrow   ^{7, 8} , PhD ;   Adrian Aguilera   ^{1, 7, 8} , PhD

¹ School of Social Welfare, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

² School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

³ Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

⁴ Data Science Program, Division of Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China

⁵ Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

⁶ Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

⁷ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁸ Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA, United States