Protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of digital health interventions in improving non-communicable disease management during the pandemic in rural Pakistan

• Xiaolin Wei ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xiaolin.wei@utoronto.ca (XW); ccp@asd.com.pk (MAK)

  Affiliations Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3076-2650

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• Nida Khan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Association for Social Development, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Hammad Durrani,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• Naila Muzaffar,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Association for Social Development, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Victoria Haldane,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• John D. Walley,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

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• Kevin Thorpe,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• Erjia Ge,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• Shiliang Ge,

  Roles Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• Warren Dodd,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

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• James Wallace,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

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• Garry Aslanyan,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, The Special Programme for Research & Training in Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Audrey Laporte,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• Muhammad Amir Khan

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: xiaolin.wei@utoronto.ca (XW); ccp@asd.com.pk (MAK)

  Affiliation Association for Social Development, Islamabad, Pakistan

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