- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT03875950
Standardized Patient Encounters to Improve PrEP Counseling for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Kenya (PrIYA-SP)
Standardized Patient Encounters to Improve Counseling for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV Prevention to Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) in Kenya
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Despite global gains in female-controlled HIV prevention strategies, the incidence of HIV in adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) continues to rise. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV acquisition in trial settings, however real-world effectiveness at scale is limited by poor adherence.
An important barrier to uptake and adherence to HIV prevention services among AGYW is the experience of judgmental, and non-empathetic interactions with health care workers (HCWs). New strategies are needed to improve provider counseling and communication skills to support PrEP adherence among AGYW. Standardized patient actors (SPs) have been used in a variety of settings to improve clinical assessment and care skills, as well as patient outcomes.
The "PrIYA-SP" study aims to improve HCW communication skills and adherence to PrEP guidelines through a cluster randomized trial of a SP actor training intervention. Twenty-four facilities that currently offer PrEP to AGYW in Kisumu County, Kenya will be selected. The first phase will include a cross-sectional assessment by unannounced SPs who will present to clinics portraying AGYW seeking PrEP, according to case scripts. Following the baseline assessment, 12 facilities will be randomized to the SP training intervention. The two-day intervention consists of didactic sessions covering national guidelines and communication skills, values clarification exercises, role playing sessions with SPs, and a group debriefing with HCW participants. Following the intervention, unannounced SPs will repeat the cross-sectional assessment.
The primary outcome is quality of counseling, defined as adherence to national guidelines for PrEP delivery and use of non-judgmental communication skills. An intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis will be used to evaluate whether the SP training intervention resulted in higher quality counseling at intervention compared to control facilities, adjusted for relevant baseline characteristics and quality measures. The investigators hypothesize that this SP training intervention will improve quality delivery of PrEP to AGYW compared to standard of care.
Results from this study will directly inform operational guidelines for PrEP delivery to AGYW in low-resource settings and offer a potentially scalable strategy to improve PrEP service delivery and adherence among AGYW.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Nairobi, Kenya
- Kenyatta National Hospital
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria: Listed by population
Facilities:
- Facilities located in a county in Western Kenya
- Currently offering PrEP services to adolescent girls and young women
Health care workers:
- Age 18 or older
- Current employee of one of the 24 study sites
- Able to provide consent
Exclusion Criteria: Listed by population
Facilities:
- Health facilities where PrEP services are staffed by contract workers, program, or study staff
Health care workers:
- Study staff seconded to the site as part of a trial or intervention
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Training intervention
In this cluster randomized control trial design, the experimental arm refers to the 12 study sites that are randomly assigned to receive the clinician training intervention.
The intervention is a clinician training using standardized patient actors to improve communication and empathy skills of health care workers who deliver PrEP to adolescent girls and young women to prevent HIV.
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This intervention is a clinician training using standardized patient actors to improve communication and empathy skills of health care workers delivering PrEP to adolescent girls and young women to prevent HIV in Kenya.
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No Intervention: Standard of care control
In this randomized cluster randomized control trial design, the no intervention arm refers to the 12 study sites that are randomly assigned not to receive the clinician training intervention.
Instead, these study sites will receive the standard of care, which is no standardized patient actor training, for health care workers who deliver PrEP to adolescent girls and young women to prevent HIV.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Quality of PrEP Counseling Provided by Health Care Workers Delivering PrEP to Adolescent Girls and Young Women for HIV Prevention in Kenya
Time Frame: Unannounced standardized patient actor visits take approximately 15 minutes each, taking place over 3-4 months.
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Quality is assessed as total score from a checklist provided by the SPs after each unannounced visit (n=71 SP visits in each arm) including domains of communication skills and adherence to national guidelines.
Communication quality is assessed in an adapted version of the Bayer-Fetzer Kalamazoo Consensus Statement; scores range from 7-28 with higher scores indicating higher quality communication.
Guideline adherence is assessed in a scoring system adapted from the Kenyan National AIDS & STI Control Programme guidelines; scores range from 0-13 with higher scores indicating higher PrEP competency.
Each measure is computed as a percent of total score possible.
The total quality score will be a combined continuous score and rescaled out of 100 per unannounced SP visit.
Mean scores among all SP encounters taking place in facilities randomized to the clinical intervention will be compared to mean scores among those randomized to standard of care.
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Unannounced standardized patient actor visits take approximately 15 minutes each, taking place over 3-4 months.
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Competency Score Measuring Quality of PrEP Counseling Provided by Health Care Workers During Clinical Training Intervention [Among Intervention Arm Only]
Time Frame: Standardized patient actor training interactions take approximately 15 minutes each and will occur during a two-day training intervention. Trainings will be conducted over a period of 2-3 months.
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The secondary outcome is PrEP competency among HCWs in interactions with SPs during the clinical training intervention, assessed as sub-scores for interpersonal skills, communication quality, and guideline adherence.
Interpersonal skills are assessed using the Interpersonal skills (IPS) assessment tool (Van Zanten 2007); scores range from 1-16 with higher scores indicating better interpersonal skills.
Communication quality is assessed in an adapted version of the Bayer-Fetzer Kalamazoo Consensus Statement; scores range from 7-28 with higher scores indicating higher quality communication.
Guideline adherence is assessed in a scoring system adapted from the Kenyan National AIDS & STI Control Programme guidelines; scores range from 0-13 with higher scores indicating higher competency.
The total competency score will be a combined continuous score (range 8-57) per SP interaction during the clinical training intervention.
All scores are rescaled as a percent of total points possible.
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Standardized patient actor training interactions take approximately 15 minutes each and will occur during a two-day training intervention. Trainings will be conducted over a period of 2-3 months.
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Pamela K Kohler, RN, MPH, PhD, University of Washington
Publications and helpful links
Study record dates
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Study Start (Actual)
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Study Registration Dates
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More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
- RNA Virus Infections
- Virus Diseases
- Infections
- Blood-Borne Infections
- Communicable Diseases
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Lentivirus Infections
- Retroviridae Infections
- Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
- Immune System Diseases
- Slow Virus Diseases
- HIV Infections
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Other Study ID Numbers
- STUDY00005595
- R01HD094630 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
IPD Plan Description
IPD Sharing Time Frame
IPD Sharing Access Criteria
IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type
- STUDY_PROTOCOL
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
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