Delivery of the HIV Service and Telemedicine Through Effective Patient-Reported Outcomes (+STEP) Intervention to Increase Screening and Treatment of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders for People Living With HIV in Alabama: Protocol for an Effectiveness-Implementation Study

Kelly W Gagnon   ^{1, 2} , MPH, PhD ;   Stefan Baral   ³ , MPH, MD ;   Dustin Long   ^{4, 5} , PhD ;   Alfredo L Guzman   ¹ , MEng, MSHI ;   Bernadette Johnson   ¹ , BS ;   Greer Burkholder   ^{1, 4} , MSPH, MD ;   James Willig   ^{1, 4} , MD ;   Michael Mugavero   ^{1, 4} , MHSc, MD ;   Margaret Baldwin   ¹ , BS ;   Susanne Fogger   ⁶ , DNP ;   Thomas Creger   ¹ , PhD ;   Karen Cropsey   ^{2, 7} , PsyD ;   Ellen Eaton   ^{1, 2, 4} , MPH, MD

¹ Division of Infectious Disease, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States

² Center for Addiction and Pain Prevention and Intervention, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States

³ Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

⁴ Centers for AIDS Research, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States

⁵ Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States

⁶ Nursing Family, Community and Health Systems, School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States

⁷ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States