Increasing Peer Support for Opioid Use Disorder Recovery During COVID-19 Through Digital Health: Protocol for a National Randomized Controlled Trial

Megan Ranney   ^{1, 2, 3 *} , MD, MPH ;   Brandon D L Marshall   ^{4 *} , PhD ;   Kirsten Langdon   ^{5, 6 *} , PhD ;   Sarah Wiehe   ⁷ , MD, MPH ;   Matthew Aalsma   ⁷ , PhD ;   Brendan Jacka   ⁴ , PhD ;   Alyssa Peachey   ⁴ , MHA ;   Francesca Beaudoin   ^{1, 1, 4} , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Warren Alpert School Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

² Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI, United States

³ Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health, Providence, RI, United States

⁴ Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI, United States

⁵ Department of Psychiatry, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, United States

⁶ Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert School Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United States

⁷ Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, United States

*these authors contributed equally