Published on in Vol 15 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/85853, first published .
Impact of the Population Medicine Multimorbidity Intervention in Xishui County (POPMIX) on People at High Risk for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Who Experience Mental Health Symptoms: Protocol for the POPMIX-MH Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Impact of the Population Medicine Multimorbidity Intervention in Xishui County (POPMIX) on People at High Risk for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Who Experience Mental Health Symptoms: Protocol for the POPMIX-MH Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Impact of the Population Medicine Multimorbidity Intervention in Xishui County (POPMIX) on People at High Risk for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Who Experience Mental Health Symptoms: Protocol for the POPMIX-MH Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Yuhao Liu   1 * , BA ;   Wenjin Chen   1 * , BMed ;   Shiyu Zhang   2 * , BSc ;   Yingping Wang   3 * , BMed ;   Zhoutao Zheng   1 , BMed ;   Ke Huang   4, 5, 6 , MD ;   Xingyao Tang   4, 5 , MMSc ;   Zhong Cao   7 , PhD ;   Xunliang Tong   8, 9 , MD ;   Lei Tang   10 , PhD ;   Jinghan Zhao   7 , MA ;   Liu He   1 , BMed ;   Lirui Jiao   11 , MPH ;   Tianying Zhao   3 , BM ;   Yingchi Luo   3 , BMed ;   Qiande Lai   12 , BMed ;   Xiangqin Lyu   12 , BMed ;   Qiushi Chen   13 , PhD ;   Aditi Bunker   7 , PhD ;   Sebastian Vollmer   14 , PhD ;   Pascal Geldsetzer   15, 16 , PhD ;   Dean Jamison   17, 18 , PhD ;   Till Bärnighausen   1, 7, 19 , MD, ScD ;   Ting Yang   4, 5, 6 , MD ;   Simiao Chen   1, 6, 7 , ScD ;   Chen Wang   1, 4, 5, 6 , MD ;   POPMIX Group   20

1 School of Population Medicine and Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

2 School of Health Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

3 Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Xishui County, Zunyi, China

4 Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

5 National Center for Respiratory Medicine, Beijing, China

6 State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Health and Multimorbidity, Beijing, China

7 Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

8 Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Hospital, Beijing, China

9 Institute of Geriatric Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

10 Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China

11 Department of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

12 Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, People’s Hospital of Xishui County, Zunyi, China

13 The Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States

14 Department of Economics and Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

15 Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States

16 Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

17 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

18 Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

19 Department of Global and Population Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States

20 see Acknowledgments

*these authors contributed equally

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  • Chen Wang, MD
  • School of Population Medicine and Public Health
  • Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College
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  • Dongcheng District
  • Beijing
  • China
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