Transforming Health and Reducing Perinatal Anxiety Through Virtual Engagement: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Carolyn Ponting   ¹ , PhD ;   Rebecca J Baer   ^{2, 3, 4} , MPH ;   Kacie Blackman   ⁵ , PhD ;   Bridgette Blebu   ⁶ , MPH, PhD ;   Jennifer N Felder   ^{1, 7} , PhD ;   Scott Oltman   ^{4, 8, 9} , MPH ;   Karen M Tabb   ¹⁰ , MSW, PhD ;   Laura Jelliffe Pawlowski   ^{8, 11} , MS, PhD

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

² Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

³ Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States

⁴ California Preterm Birth Initiative, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁵ Department of Health Sciences, College of Health and Human Development, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA, United States

⁶ Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation, Harbor–UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, United States

⁷ Osher Center for Integrative Health, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁸ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁹ Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

¹⁰ School of Social Work, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States

¹¹ Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York University, New York, NY, United States