Empowering Dementia Carers With an iSupport Virtual Assistant (e-DiVA) in Asia-Pacific Regional Countries: Protocol for a Pilot Multisite Randomized Controlled Trial

Tuan Anh Nguyen   ^{1, 2, 3 *} , PhD ;   Kham Tran   ^{1, 2 *} , PhD ;   Adrian Esterman   ² , Prof Dr ;   Bianca Brijnath   ¹ , Prof Dr ;   Lily Dongxia Xiao   ⁴ , Prof Dr ;   Penelope Schofield   ⁵ , Prof Dr ;   Sunil Bhar   ⁵ , Prof Dr ;   Nilmini Wickramasinghe   ⁵ , Prof Dr ;   Ronald Sinclair   ⁶ , PhD ;   Thu Ha Dang   ⁵ , MIPH ;   Sarah Cullum   ⁷ , PhD ;   Yuda Turana   ⁸ , Prof Dr ;   Ladson Hinton   ⁹ , Prof Dr ;   Katrin Seeher   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   Andre Q Andrade   ¹¹ , MD, PhD ;   Maria Crotty   ¹² , Prof Dr ;   Susan Kurrle   ¹³ , Prof Dr ;   Stefanie Freel   ¹⁴ , MA ;   Thang Pham   ¹⁵ , Prof Dr ;   Thanh Binh Nguyen   ¹⁵ , PhD ;   Henry Brodaty   ¹⁶ , Prof Dr

¹ Social Gerontology Division, National Ageing Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia

² UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

³ Health Strategy and Policy Institute, Ministry of Health, Hanoi, Vietnam

⁴ College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

⁵ Department of Psychology, School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

⁶ Faculty of Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

⁷ Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

⁸ School of Medicine, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

⁹ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, United States

¹⁰ Department of Mental Health and Substance Use, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

¹¹ Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

¹² College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

¹³ Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

¹⁴ Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁵ Department of Neurology and Alzheimer Disease, Vietnam National Geriatric Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam

¹⁶ Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

*these authors contributed equally