Communication Intervention Using Digital Technology to Facilitate Informed Choices at Childbirth in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Carmen Simone Grilo Diniz   ^{1, 2 *} , MD, MSc, PhD ;   Ana Carolina Arruda Franzon   ^{2, 3 *} , MSc, PhD ;   Beatriz Fioretti-Foschi   ^{2, 3 *} , MSc, PhD ;   Denise Yoshie Niy   ^{2, 3 *} , MSc, PhD ;   Livia Sanches Pedrilio   ^{4 *} , MSc ;   Edson Amaro Jr   ^{2, 5 *} , MD, PhD ;   João Ricardo Sato   ^{5, 6 *} , MSc, PhD

¹ School of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

² Programa de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Institucional do Sistema Único de Saúde, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sao Paulo, Brazil

³ Gender and Evidence on Maternity and Health Study Group, School of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

⁴ Excellence Office, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sao Paulo, Brazil

⁵ Big Data, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sao Paulo, Brazil

⁶ Center of Mathematics, Computing and Cognition, Universidade Federal do ABC, Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil

*all authors contributed equally