A Mobile Health Intervention for Patients With Depressive Symptoms: Protocol for an Economic Evaluation Alongside Two Randomized Trials in Brazil and Peru

Daniela Vera Cruz dos Santos   ¹ , BA, MSc ;   Patrícia Coelho de Soárez   ^{1 *} , MPH, PhD, DDS ;   Victoria Cavero   ^{2 *} , BA ;   Thaís I U Rocha   ¹ , BA ;   Suzana Aschar   ^{1 *} , BA ;   Kate Louise Daley   ^{1 *} , BSc, MSc, DClinPsy ;   Heloísa Garcia Claro   ^{1, 3 *} , BSN, PhD ;   George Abud Scotton   ¹ , BSc, MSc ;   Ivan Fernandes   ^{4 *} , BA, MSc, PhD ;   Francisco Diez-Canseco   ^{2 *} , BA, MPH ;   Lena Rebeca Brandt   ^{2 *} , MA ;   Mauricio Toyama   ^{2 *} , BA ;   Hellen Carolina Martins Castro   ^{1 *} , BA ;   J Jaime Miranda   ^{2, 5 *} , MSc, MD, PhD ;   Ricardo Araya   ^{6 *} , MD, PhD ;   Julieta Quayle   ^{1 *} , MSc, PhD, ClinPsych ;   Paulo Rossi Menezes   ^{1 *} , MSc, MD, PhD

¹ Departamento de Medicina Preventiva, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

² CRONICAS Center of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

³ Faculdade de Enfermagem, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

⁴ CECS Centro de Engenharia, Modelagem e Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Universidade Federal do ABC, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil

⁵ Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

⁶ Centre for Global Mental Health and Primary Care Research, Health Service and Population Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

*these authors contributed equally