Mobile Phone Technology for Preventing HIV and Related Youth Health Problems, Sexual Health, Mental Health, and Substance Use Problems in Southwest Uganda (Youth Health SMS): Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Philip Kreniske   ¹ , PhD ;   Olive Imelda Namuyaba   ² , BA ;   Robert Kasumba   ³ , MS ;   Phionah Namatovu   ^{2, 3} , MPH ;   Fred Ssewamala   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Gina Wingood   ⁴ , SCD ;   Ying Wei   ⁵ , PhD ;   Michele L Ybarra   ⁶ , PhD ;   Charlotte Oloya   ⁷ , LLB, LLM ;   Costella Tindyebwa   ⁷ , MA ;   Christina Ntulo   ⁸ , MA ;   Vincent Mujune   ⁷ , MPH ;   Larry W Chang   ⁹ , MPH, MD ;   Claude A Mellins   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   John S Santelli   ¹¹ , MPH, MD

¹ Community Health and Social Sciences Department, Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States

² International Center for Child Development, Masaka, Uganda

³ Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO, United States

⁴ Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

⁵ Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

⁶ Center for Innovative Public Health Research, San Clemente, CA, United States

⁷ StrongMinds Uganda, Kampala, Uganda

⁸ Malachite Center for Mental Health, Kampala, Uganda

⁹ Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States

¹⁰ HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York, NY, United States

¹¹ Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States