Can a phone app boost HIV prevention and contraception among students?

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Work package 1: Formative research 1. Focus Group Discussions * Aged 16 years old or over; * Currently enrolled at a college/university where the research is being done; * Willing and able to provide written informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: \- None stated 2. Key informant interviews * Staff from MoHCC responsible for implementing or supervising implementation of HIV or sexual and reproductive health services, or for policy planning on the same topics, * Staff from Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education responsible for student health, staff from Ministry of Health implementing partners working on HIV and sexual and reproductive health services in Zimbabwe, * Willing and able to provide written informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: \- None stated Work package 3: Adaptation of the parent mHealth tool 1\. Hackathon 1a. Students Inclusion criteria: * Enrolled in the specific institutions; in these disciplines: public health, information technology and computer science; and * Willing to take part in the hackathon Exclusion criteria: None stated 1b. Multi-disciplinary experts Inclusion criteria: * Representatives in any of the following disciplines, Digital health experts, MoHCC, HIV and SRH services, other key stakeholders; and * Willing to take part in the hackathon. Exclusion criteria: None stated 2\. Alpha testing 2a. Students Inclusion criteria: • Recruited from the same colleges/universities that participated in formative research • Willing and able to provide written informed consent. Exclusion criteria: None stated 2b. Health workers Inclusion criteria: * Staff from MoHCC responsible for implementing or supervising the implementation of HIV and sexual and reproductive health services, * Willing and able to provide written informed consent. Exclusion criteria: None stated 3\. Beta testing 3a. Students Inclusion criteria: * Students who have used the mHealth tool and decision aids * Willing and able to provide written informed consent. Exclusion Criteria: \- None stated 4\. Pilot of mHealth supported self-care in two colleges/universities 4a. Institutions Inclusion criteria: * Less than 3500 students * Comparable male and female ratio * Participated in formative research Exclusion criteria: Institutions that participated in the formative research 4b. Peer distributors Inclusion criteria: * Aged \>18 years; * Currently enrolled at the participating colleges/universities * Willing to be a peer distributor, * Willing to conduct study activities according to the protocol. Exclusion criteria: \- Students who were away from college for industrial attachment during intervention implementation 4c. Pilot survey Inclusion criteria: * Students enrolled at the colleges/universities for at least 6 months. * Willing to provide written informed consent for the survey. Exclusion criteria: \- Students who were away from college for industrial attachment during intervention implementation 4d. In-depth interviews with students Inclusion criteria: * Students enrolled at the colleges/universities for at least 6 months. * Willing to provide written informed consent for the in-depth interviews Exclusion criteria: None defined 4e. In depth interviews with Peer Distributors Inclusion Criteria: * Student peer distributor at a tertiary education institution where the research is being done; and * Willing and able to provide written consent for the interview. Exclusion criteria: None defined 4f. FGDs with students Inclusion criteria: * Enrolled at the colleges/universities for at least 6 months. * Willing to provide informed consent for the FGD. Exclusion criteria: None defined 4g. In depth interviews with health workers * Health worker at participating college/university supporting the MASCOT intervention. * Willing and able to provide written informed consent. Exclusion criteria: None defined 5\. Cluster Randomised trial 5a. Institutions Inclusion criteria: * Located in 10 provinces: Harare, Mashonaland Central, West and East, Masvingo, Manicaland, Midlands Bulawayo and Matabeleland North and South * Maximum enrolment of 3500 students Exclusion criteria: None defined 5b. Surveys, in-depth interviews with students, peer distributors and health workers and FDGs with students will be the same as for work package 4 above. 5c. Costing interviews with distributors Inclusion criteria: * Student peer distributor at a tertiary education institution where the research is being done; and * Willing and able to provide written consent for the costing interview. Exclusion criteria: None defined 5d. Costing - Valuing distributor time Inclusion criteria: * Student peer distributor at a tertiary institution where the research is being done. * Willing and able to provide written consent Exclusion criteria: None defined