Design Research to Embed mHealth into a Community-Led Blood Pressure Management System in Uganda: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study

Josephine Schwab   ¹ ;   Jonas Wachinger   ¹ , MSc ;   Richard Munana   ² , MD ;   Maxencia Nabiryo   ³ , BSc ;   Isaac Sekitoleko   ² , MSc ;   Juliette Cazier   ⁴ , MSc ;   Rebecca Ingenhoff   ⁵ , MSc ;   Caterina Favaretti   ⁶ , MSc ;   Vasanthi Subramonia Pillai   ⁶ , MSc ;   Ivan Weswa   ² , BSPM ;   John Wafula   ² , BCom ;   Julius Valentin Emmrich   ^{4, 7} , Dr med ;   Till Bärnighausen   ¹ , Prof Dr ;   Felix Knauf   ^{5, 8} , Prof Dr ;   Samuel Knauss   ^{4, 7} , Dr med ;   Christine K Nalwadda   ³ , PhD ;   Nikkil Sudharsanan   ^{1, 6 *} , PhD ;   Robert Kalyesubula   ^{2, 9 *} , PhD ;   Shannon A McMahon   ^{1 *} , PhD

¹ Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

² African Community Center for Social Sustainability, Nakaseke District, Uganda

³ Department of Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

⁴ mTOMADY gGmbh, Berlin, Germany

⁵ Department of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

⁶ Professorship of Behavioral Science for Disease Prevention and Health Care, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

⁷ Department of Neurology with Experimental Neurology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

⁸ Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

⁹ Department of Physiology, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

*these authors contributed equally