Short, Animated Storytelling Video to Reduce Addiction Stigma in 13,500 Participants Across Multiple Countries Through an Online Approach: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Maya Adam   ^{1, 2, 3} , MD, PhD ;   Maxwell Klapow   ⁴ , MA ;   Merlin Greuel   ² , MD ;   Misha Seeff   ⁵ ;   Julia K Rohr   ² , PhD ;   Andrew Gordon   ⁶ , PhD ;   Doron Amsalem   ^{7 *} , MD ;   Till Bärnighausen   ^{2, 8, 9 *} , MSc, MD, SCD

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States

² Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

³ Department of Medicine, Center for Digital Health, Stanford Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States

⁴ Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

⁵ United World College Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

⁶ Prolific Academic, London, United Kingdom

⁷ Department of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, United States

⁸ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA, United States

⁹ Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), Somkhele, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa

*these authors contributed equally