Combined Motivational Interviewing and Ecological Momentary Intervention to Reduce Hazardous Alcohol Use Among Sexual Minority Cisgender Men and Transgender Individuals: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Carolyn Lauckner   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Bryce Puesta Takenaka   ² , MPH ;   Fidelis Sesenu   ¹ , MPhil ;   Jaime S Brown   ¹ , BA ;   Sally J Kirklewski   ² , MEd ;   Erin Nicholson   ² , MPH ;   Kimberly Haney   ¹ , MLS ;   Reuben Adatorwovor   ³ , PhD ;   Donte T Boyd   ^{4, 5} , MSW, PhD ;   Keisa Fallin-Bennett   ⁶ , MPH, MD ;   Arjee Javellana Restar   ^{2, 7} , MPH, PhD ;   Trace Kershaw   ^{2 *} , PhD

¹ Center for Health Equity Transformation, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States

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

³ Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States

⁴ College of Social Work, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States

⁵ Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

⁶ Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States

⁷ Department of Epidemiology, Department of Health Systems and Population Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

*these authors contributed equally