The Community Health Workers and Mobile Health for Emerging Adults Transitioning Sickle Cell Disease Care (COMETS) Trial: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Tanisha D Belton   ^{1 *} , MPH, DrPH ;   Caren M Steinway   ^{2, 3 *} , LMSW, MPH ;   Olivia Teng   ² , MSPH ;   Justine Shults   ^{4, 5} , MS, PhD ;   Lamia P Barakat   ⁶ , PhD ;   Banu Aygun   ⁷ , MD ;   Abena Appiah-Kubi   ⁷ , MD, MPH ;   Lori E Crosby   ^{8, 9} , PsyD ;   Omar Niss   ^{9, 10} , MD ;   Biree Andemariam   ¹¹ , MD ;   Lisa A Schwartz   ⁶ , PhD ;   Samantha Luma   ⁴ , MSOT ;   Kyle A Smith   ⁴ , MS ;   Tracey B Johnson   ⁴ ;   David M Rubin   ¹ , MD, MSCE ;   Kim M Smith-Whitley   ¹² , MD ;   Sophia Jan   ^{2, 13} , MD, MSHP

¹ PolicyLab, Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States

² Department of Pediatrics, Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, NY, United States

³ Department of Pediatrics, Donald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY, United States

⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States

⁵ Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

⁶ Division of Oncology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States

⁷ Pediatric Hematology Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Cohen Children's Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY, United States

⁸ Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States

⁹ Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States

¹⁰ Division of Hematology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States

¹¹ New England Sickle Cell Institute, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, CT, United States

¹² Division of General Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States

¹³ Department of Pediatrics, Donald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY, United States

*these authors contributed equally