mHealth intervention to improve quality of life in patients with chronic diseases during the COVID-19 crisis in Paraguay: A study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Tamara Escrivá-Martínez; Mª Dolores Vara; Nadia Czeraniuk; Matías Denis; Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea; Luis Fernández-Luque; Alba Jiménez-Díaz; Vicente Traver; Juan José Llull; Antonio Martínez-Millana; Jorge Garcés-Ferrer; Marta Miragall; Rocío Herrero; Analía Enríquez; Verena Schaefer; Sergio Cervera-Torres; Cecilia Villasanti; Carmen V. Cabral; Irene Fernández; Rosa Mª Baños

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0273290

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mHealth intervention to improve quality of life in patients with chronic diseases during the COVID-19 crisis in Paraguay: A study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Tamara Escrivá-Martínez ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Escrivá-Martínez, Mª Dolores Vara, Nadia Czeraniuk, Matías Denis, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Luis Fernández-Luque, Alba Jiménez-Díaz, Vicente Traver, Juan José Llull, Antonio Martínez-Millana, Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, Marta Miragall, Rocío Herrero, Analía Enríquez, Verena Schaefer, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Cecilia Villasanti, Carmen V. Cabral, Irene Fernández, Rosa Mª Baños

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: tamara.escriva@uv.es

Affiliations Polibienestar Research Institute, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, CIBER-Obn Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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Mª Dolores Vara ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Escrivá-Martínez, Mª Dolores Vara, Nadia Czeraniuk, Matías Denis, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Luis Fernández-Luque, Alba Jiménez-Díaz, Vicente Traver, Juan José Llull, Antonio Martínez-Millana, Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, Marta Miragall, Rocío Herrero, Analía Enríquez, Verena Schaefer, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Cecilia Villasanti, Carmen V. Cabral, Irene Fernández, Rosa Mª Baños

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Polibienestar Research Institute, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, CIBER-Obn Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5378-2304

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Nadia Czeraniuk ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Escrivá-Martínez, Mª Dolores Vara, Nadia Czeraniuk, Matías Denis, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Luis Fernández-Luque, Alba Jiménez-Díaz, Vicente Traver, Juan José Llull, Antonio Martínez-Millana, Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, Marta Miragall, Rocío Herrero, Analía Enríquez, Verena Schaefer, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Cecilia Villasanti, Carmen V. Cabral, Irene Fernández, Rosa Mª Baños

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centro de Investigación y Documentación, Universidad Autónoma de Encarnación, Encarnación, Paraguay
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Matías Denis ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Escrivá-Martínez, Mª Dolores Vara, Nadia Czeraniuk, Matías Denis, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Luis Fernández-Luque, Alba Jiménez-Díaz, Vicente Traver, Juan José Llull, Antonio Martínez-Millana, Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, Marta Miragall, Rocío Herrero, Analía Enríquez, Verena Schaefer, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Cecilia Villasanti, Carmen V. Cabral, Irene Fernández, Rosa Mª Baños

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Investigación y Documentación, Universidad Autónoma de Encarnación, Encarnación, Paraguay

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0970-7016

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Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Escrivá-Martínez, Mª Dolores Vara, Nadia Czeraniuk, Matías Denis, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Luis Fernández-Luque, Alba Jiménez-Díaz, Vicente Traver, Juan José Llull, Antonio Martínez-Millana, Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, Marta Miragall, Rocío Herrero, Analía Enríquez, Verena Schaefer, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Cecilia Villasanti, Carmen V. Cabral, Irene Fernández, Rosa Mª Baños

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Adhera Health, Inc, Palo Alto, CA, United States of America
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Luis Fernández-Luque ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Escrivá-Martínez, Mª Dolores Vara, Nadia Czeraniuk, Matías Denis, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Luis Fernández-Luque, Alba Jiménez-Díaz, Vicente Traver, Juan José Llull, Antonio Martínez-Millana, Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, Marta Miragall, Rocío Herrero, Analía Enríquez, Verena Schaefer, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Cecilia Villasanti, Carmen V. Cabral, Irene Fernández, Rosa Mª Baños

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Adhera Health, Inc, Palo Alto, CA, United States of America
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Alba Jiménez-Díaz ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Escrivá-Martínez, Mª Dolores Vara, Nadia Czeraniuk, Matías Denis, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Luis Fernández-Luque, Alba Jiménez-Díaz, Vicente Traver, Juan José Llull, Antonio Martínez-Millana, Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, Marta Miragall, Rocío Herrero, Analía Enríquez, Verena Schaefer, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Cecilia Villasanti, Carmen V. Cabral, Irene Fernández, Rosa Mª Baños

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment, Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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Vicente Traver ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Escrivá-Martínez, Mª Dolores Vara, Nadia Czeraniuk, Matías Denis, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Luis Fernández-Luque, Alba Jiménez-Díaz, Vicente Traver, Juan José Llull, Antonio Martínez-Millana, Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, Marta Miragall, Rocío Herrero, Analía Enríquez, Verena Schaefer, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Cecilia Villasanti, Carmen V. Cabral, Irene Fernández, Rosa Mª Baños

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation ITACA Institute, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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Juan José Llull ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Escrivá-Martínez, Mª Dolores Vara, Nadia Czeraniuk, Matías Denis, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Luis Fernández-Luque, Alba Jiménez-Díaz, Vicente Traver, Juan José Llull, Antonio Martínez-Millana, Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, Marta Miragall, Rocío Herrero, Analía Enríquez, Verena Schaefer, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Cecilia Villasanti, Carmen V. Cabral, Irene Fernández, Rosa Mª Baños

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation ITACA Institute, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4399-950X

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Antonio Martínez-Millana ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Escrivá-Martínez, Mª Dolores Vara, Nadia Czeraniuk, Matías Denis, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Luis Fernández-Luque, Alba Jiménez-Díaz, Vicente Traver, Juan José Llull, Antonio Martínez-Millana, Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, Marta Miragall, Rocío Herrero, Analía Enríquez, Verena Schaefer, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Cecilia Villasanti, Carmen V. Cabral, Irene Fernández, Rosa Mª Baños

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation ITACA Institute, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1056-5067

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Jorge Garcés-Ferrer ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Escrivá-Martínez, Mª Dolores Vara, Nadia Czeraniuk, Matías Denis, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Luis Fernández-Luque, Alba Jiménez-Díaz, Vicente Traver, Juan José Llull, Antonio Martínez-Millana, Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, Marta Miragall, Rocío Herrero, Analía Enríquez, Verena Schaefer, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Cecilia Villasanti, Carmen V. Cabral, Irene Fernández, Rosa Mª Baños

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Polibienestar Research Institute, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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Marta Miragall ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Escrivá-Martínez, Mª Dolores Vara, Nadia Czeraniuk, Matías Denis, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Luis Fernández-Luque, Alba Jiménez-Díaz, Vicente Traver, Juan José Llull, Antonio Martínez-Millana, Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, Marta Miragall, Rocío Herrero, Analía Enríquez, Verena Schaefer, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Cecilia Villasanti, Carmen V. Cabral, Irene Fernández, Rosa Mª Baños

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations CIBER-Obn Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Adhera Health, Inc, Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0646-3597

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Rocío Herrero ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Escrivá-Martínez, Mª Dolores Vara, Nadia Czeraniuk, Matías Denis, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Luis Fernández-Luque, Alba Jiménez-Díaz, Vicente Traver, Juan José Llull, Antonio Martínez-Millana, Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, Marta Miragall, Rocío Herrero, Analía Enríquez, Verena Schaefer, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Cecilia Villasanti, Carmen V. Cabral, Irene Fernández, Rosa Mª Baños

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations CIBER-Obn Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Department of Psychology and Sociology, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Zaragoza, Teruel, Spain
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Analía Enríquez ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Escrivá-Martínez, Mª Dolores Vara, Nadia Czeraniuk, Matías Denis, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Luis Fernández-Luque, Alba Jiménez-Díaz, Vicente Traver, Juan José Llull, Antonio Martínez-Millana, Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, Marta Miragall, Rocío Herrero, Analía Enríquez, Verena Schaefer, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Cecilia Villasanti, Carmen V. Cabral, Irene Fernández, Rosa Mª Baños

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Centro de Investigación y Documentación, Universidad Autónoma de Encarnación, Encarnación, Paraguay
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Verena Schaefer ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Escrivá-Martínez, Mª Dolores Vara, Nadia Czeraniuk, Matías Denis, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Luis Fernández-Luque, Alba Jiménez-Díaz, Vicente Traver, Juan José Llull, Antonio Martínez-Millana, Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, Marta Miragall, Rocío Herrero, Analía Enríquez, Verena Schaefer, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Cecilia Villasanti, Carmen V. Cabral, Irene Fernández, Rosa Mª Baños

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Instituto Superior de Educación Divina Esperanza, Encarnación, Paraguay

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1427-4910

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Sergio Cervera-Torres ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Escrivá-Martínez, Mª Dolores Vara, Nadia Czeraniuk, Matías Denis, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Luis Fernández-Luque, Alba Jiménez-Díaz, Vicente Traver, Juan José Llull, Antonio Martínez-Millana, Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, Marta Miragall, Rocío Herrero, Analía Enríquez, Verena Schaefer, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Cecilia Villasanti, Carmen V. Cabral, Irene Fernández, Rosa Mª Baños

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Adhera Health, Inc, Palo Alto, CA, United States of America
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Cecilia Villasanti ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Escrivá-Martínez, Mª Dolores Vara, Nadia Czeraniuk, Matías Denis, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Luis Fernández-Luque, Alba Jiménez-Díaz, Vicente Traver, Juan José Llull, Antonio Martínez-Millana, Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, Marta Miragall, Rocío Herrero, Analía Enríquez, Verena Schaefer, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Cecilia Villasanti, Carmen V. Cabral, Irene Fernández, Rosa Mª Baños

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Centro de Investigación y Documentación, Universidad Autónoma de Encarnación, Encarnación, Paraguay
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Carmen V. Cabral ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Escrivá-Martínez, Mª Dolores Vara, Nadia Czeraniuk, Matías Denis, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Luis Fernández-Luque, Alba Jiménez-Díaz, Vicente Traver, Juan José Llull, Antonio Martínez-Millana, Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, Marta Miragall, Rocío Herrero, Analía Enríquez, Verena Schaefer, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Cecilia Villasanti, Carmen V. Cabral, Irene Fernández, Rosa Mª Baños

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Hospital Regional de Encarnación, Encarnación, Paraguay
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Irene Fernández ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Escrivá-Martínez, Mª Dolores Vara, Nadia Czeraniuk, Matías Denis, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Luis Fernández-Luque, Alba Jiménez-Díaz, Vicente Traver, Juan José Llull, Antonio Martínez-Millana, Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, Marta Miragall, Rocío Herrero, Analía Enríquez, Verena Schaefer, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Cecilia Villasanti, Carmen V. Cabral, Irene Fernández, Rosa Mª Baños

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Methodology for the Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tamara Escrivá-Martínez, Mª Dolores Vara, Nadia Czeraniuk, Matías Denis, Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea, Luis Fernández-Luque, Alba Jiménez-Díaz, Vicente Traver, Juan José Llull, Antonio Martínez-Millana, Jorge Garcés-Ferrer, Marta Miragall, Rocío Herrero, Analía Enríquez, Verena Schaefer, Sergio Cervera-Torres, Cecilia Villasanti, Carmen V. Cabral, Irene Fernández, Rosa Mª Baños

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Polibienestar Research Institute, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, CIBER-Obn Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment, Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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mHealth intervention to improve quality of life in patients with chronic diseases during the COVID-19 crisis in Paraguay: A study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Tamara Escrivá-Martínez,
Mª Dolores Vara,
Nadia Czeraniuk,
Matías Denis,
Francisco J. Núñez-Benjumea,
Luis Fernández-Luque,
Alba Jiménez-Díaz,
Vicente Traver,
Juan José Llull,
Antonio Martínez-Millana

Published: November 8, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273290

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