Evaluating and Enhancing an Educational Intervention to Reduce Smallholder Farmers’ Exposure to Pesticides in Uganda Through a Digital, Systematic Approach to Behavior Change: Protocol for a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

Peter Ssekkadde   ^{1, 2 *} , BSc, MSc ;   Vica Marie Jelena Tomberge   ^{1, 2, 3 *} , BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Curdin Brugger   ^{1, 2} , BSc, MSc ;   Aggrey Atuhaire   ⁴ , BSc, MSc ;   Mohamed Aqiel Dalvie   ⁵ , BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Hanna-Andrea Rother   ⁵ , BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Martin Röösli   ^{1, 2} , BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Jennifer Inauen   ³ , BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Samuel Fuhrimann   ^{1, 2} , BSc, MSc, PhD

¹ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland

² University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

³ Institute of Psychology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

⁴ Uganda National Association of Community and Occupational Health, Kampala, Uganda

⁵ School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

*these authors contributed equally