An E–Mental Health Solution to Prevent and Manage Posttraumatic Stress Injuries Among First Responders in Alberta: Protocol for the Implementation and Evaluation of Text Messaging Services (Text4PTSI and Text4Wellbeing)

Gloria Obuobi-Donkor   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Ejemai Eboreime   ¹ , MD, MSc, PhD ;   Jennifer Bond   ² , MC ;   Natalie Phung   ² , MSW ;   Scarlett Eyben   ² , MA ;   Jake Hayward   ³ , MPH, MD ;   Yanbo Zhang   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Frank MacMaster   ^{4, 5} , PhD ;   Steven Clelland   ⁵ , MA ;   Russell Greiner   ⁶ , PhD ;   Chelsea Jones   ⁷ , PhD ;   Bo Cao   ¹ , PhD ;   Suzette Brémault-Phillips   ^{7, 8} , PhD ;   Kristopher Wells   ⁸ , PhD ;   Xin-Min Li   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Carla Hilario   ⁹ , PhD, RN ;   Andrew J Greenshaw   ¹ , PhD ;   Vincent Israel Opoku Agyapong   ^{1, 10 *} , MD, PhD

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

² Operational Stress Injury Clinic, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, AB, Canada

³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

⁵ Addiction and Mental Health, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, AB, Canada

⁶ Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

⁷ Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

⁸ Department of Child and Youth Care, Faculty of Health and Community Studies, MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB, Canada

⁹ Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

¹⁰ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

*these authors contributed equally