Development and Pilot-Testing of an Optimized Conversational Agent or “Chatbot” for Peruvian Adolescents Living With HIV to Facilitate Mental Health Screening, Education, Self-Help, and Linkage to Care: Protocol for a Mixed Methods, Community-Engaged Study

Jerome T Galea   ^{1, 2} , MSW, PhD ;   Diego H Vasquez   ³ , BA ;   Neil Rupani   ⁴ , BA ;   Moya B Gordon   ¹ , BSW ;   Milagros Tapia   ³ , BA ;   Karah Y Greene   ¹ , MSW ;   Lenka Kolevic   ^{5, 6} , MPH, MD ;   Molly F Franke   ² , SD ;   Carmen Contreras   ^{1, 3, 7} , MA

¹ School of Social Work, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States

² Department of Global and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

³ Socios En Salud Sucursal, Lima, Peru

⁴ Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States

⁵ Instituto Nacional de Salud del Niño, Lima, Peru

⁶ Departamento Académico de Pediatría, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru

⁷ Harvard Global Health Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States