Text Messaging Versus Email Messaging to Support Patients With Major Depressive Disorder: Protocol for a Randomized Hybrid Type II Effectiveness-Implementation Trial

Medard Kofi Adu   ^{1 *} , BSc, MSc ;   Reham Shalaby   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Ejemai Eboreime   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Adegboyega Sapara   ¹ , PhD, FRCPC ;   Nnamdi Nkire   ¹ , MD, MBBS, DHSM, DCP, FRAMI ;   Rajan Chawla   ¹ , MBBS, CCT, MSC, MRCPsych ;   Chidi Chima   ¹ , MBBS, MPH, PhD ;   Michael Achor   ¹ , MD, MSc, FRCPC ;   Felix Osiogo   ¹ , FRCPC, FWACS, CCT-UK, MBBS ;   Pierre Chue   ¹ , MD, DABPN, MRCPsych, FRCPC ;   Andrew J Greenshaw   ¹ , PhD, FRSA ;   Vincent Israel Agyapong   ^{1, 2} , MD, PhD, FRCPC, FRCPsych

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

² Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

*these authors contributed equally