Co-Design of a Digital Health Platform for Chronic Disease Management in Rural Settings Using a Person-Centered, Collaborative-Care Model: Protocol for a 3-Phase Mixed Methods Study

Amanda Ellen Young   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Britt Klein   ^{1, 2, 3} , PsyD ;   Priscilla R Prestes   ^{1, 3} , PhD ;   Colette Joy Browning   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Leo R Bell   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Fadi Joseph Charchar   ^{1, 3, 4, 5} , PhD ;   Christopher Hall   ⁶ , BCom, Grad Dip ;   Matthew Toms   ⁶ , BEc ;   Huy Van Nguyen   ^{1, 7, 8} , PhD ;   Quanda Zhang   ^{1, 3} , PhD ;   Lisa Nicole Fiddes   ¹ , MPrevMed ;   Tanya E Davison   ^{1, 9, 10, 11} , PsyD ;   Marissa Dickins   ^{1, 9, 12} , PhD ;   Tim Harrison   ^{1, 13} , PhD ;   Shane Andrew Thomas   ^{1, 2} , PhD

¹ Health Innovation and Transformation Centre, Federation University, Mt Helen, Australia

² Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Federation University, Mt Helen, Australia

³ Institute of Innovation, Science and Sustainability, Federation University, Mt Helen, Australia

⁴ Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

⁵ Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

⁶ WellAware.Life Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia

⁷ School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Herston, Australia

⁸ Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States

⁹ Silverchain, Melbourne, Australia

¹⁰ Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

¹¹ Department of Psychological Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

¹² School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

¹³ Ararat Rural City Council, Ararat, Australia