Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation With and Without Text4Support for the Treatment of Resistant Depression: Protocol for a Patient-Centered Multicenter Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial

Medard Kofi Adu   ¹ , BEd, MSc ;   Raquel da Luz Dias   ¹ , PhD ;   Belinda Agyapong   ² , MEd ;   Ejemai Eboreime   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Adegboyega O Sapara   ² , MD, PhD ;   Mobolaji A Lawal   ² , MD, MPH, MPhil ;   Corina Chew   ³ , BSc ;   Karen Diamond Frost   ³ , BSc ;   Daniel Li   ³ , MD ;   Michael Flynn   ^{1, 4} , MD ;   Sameh Hassan   ^{1, 4} , MB, BCh, MSc, MRCPsych ;   Ahmed Saleh   ^{1, 4} , MD ;   Sanjana Sridharan   ^{1, 4} , MD ;   Matt White   ^{1, 4} , MD, PhD ;   Vincent IO Agyapong   ^{1, 4} , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

² Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

³ Alberta Health Services, Addiction and Mental Health, Edmonton, AB, Canada

⁴ Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, NS, Canada