Designing, Developing, and Testing a Chatbot for Parents and Caregivers of Children and Young People With Rheumatological Conditions (the IMPACT Study): Protocol for a Co-Designed Proof-of-Concept Study

Polly Livermore   ^{1, 2, 3, 4} , PhD ;   Klaudia Kupiec   ¹ , MSc ;   Lucy R Wedderburn   ^{2, 3, 4} , MBBS, MA, PhD ;   Andrea Knight   ^{5, 6, 7} , MD, MSCE ;   Ameenat L Solebo   ^{3, 8} , PhD ;   Roz Shafran   ³ , PhD ;   Glenn Robert   ⁹ , MSc, PhD ;   N J Sebire   ³ , MD ;   Faith Gibson   ^{10, 11} , MSc, PhD ;   IMPACT Steering Group   ¹²

¹ Rheumatology Department, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

² NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, United Kingdom

³ University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

⁴ Centre for Adolescent Rheumatology Versus Arthritis at UCL, UCLH and GOSH, London, United Kingdom

⁵ Division of Rheumatology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁶ Neurosciences and Mental Health Program, SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁷ Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁸ Opthamology Department, Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

⁹ Kings College London, London, United Kingdom

¹⁰ School of Health Sciences, University of Surrey, Surrey, United Kingdom

¹¹ Director of Research - Nursing and Allied Health, Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, London, United Kingdom

¹² See Acknowledgements, London, United Kingdom