Mediators of Intervention Effects on Depressive Symptoms Among People Living With HIV: Secondary Analysis of a Mobile Health Randomized Controlled Trial Using Latent Growth Curve Modeling

Mengting Zhu   ^{1 *} , MS ;   Weiping Cai   ^{2 *} , MD ;   Linghua Li   ^{2 *} , MD ;   Yan Guo   ^{1, 3, 4 *} , PhD ;   Aliza Monroe-Wise   ^{5 *} , MD, MSc ;   Yiran Li   ^{1 *} , MS ;   Chengbo Zeng   ^{6, 7} , MS ;   Jiaying Qiao   ¹ , MS ;   Zhimeng Xu   ¹ , MS ;   Hanxi Zhang   ⁸ , MS ;   Yu Zeng   ¹ , MS ;   Cong Liu   ² , MSN

¹ Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

² Department of Infectious Diseases, Guangzhou Eighth People's Hospital, Guangzhou, China

³ Center for Migrant Health Policy, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

⁴ Sun Yat-sen Global Health Institute, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

⁵ Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

⁶ South Carolina SmartState Center of Healthcare Quality, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States

⁷ Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States

⁸ National Center of AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, China Center for Disease Control, Beijing, China

*these authors contributed equally