Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Education Using a Virtual Environment in Sexual-Minority Men of Color With HIV: Protocol for a Sequential, Mixed Method, Waitlist Randomized Controlled Trial

S Raquel Ramos   ^{1, 2, 3, 4 *} , MBA, MSN, FNP-BC, PhD ;   Constance Johnson   ^{5, 6 *} , RN, MS, PhD ;   Gail Melkus   ^{7 *} , ANP, EdD ;   Trace Kershaw   ^{2, 3 *} , PhD ;   Marya Gwadz   ^{4, 8 *} , BA, MA, PhD ;   Harmony Reynolds   ^{9, 10 *} , MD ;   Allison Vorderstrasse   ^{11 *} , APRN, DNSc

¹ School of Nursing, Yale University, Orange, CT, United States

² Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

³ Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

⁴ The Center for Drug Use and HIV Research, New York University, New York, NY, United States

⁵ Cizik School of Nursing, University of Texas Houston, Houston, TX, United States

⁶ School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Houston, Houston, TX, United States

⁷ Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York University, New York, NY, United States

⁸ Silver School of Social Work, New York University, New York, NY, United States

⁹ Department of Medicine, Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY, United States

¹⁰ NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, United States

¹¹ Elaine Marieb College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States

*all authors contributed equally