Healthcare providers (HCP) serving the El Paso U.S.-Mexico Border Region will be recruited to compare educational and professional skills interventions focused on the human papillomavirus (HPV). Our hypothesis is that improving provider knowledge and communication strategies about HPV and its vaccine will reduce hesitancy and increase uptake and completion among the populations they serve.
A sample of emerging \[in training\] and current \[in practice\] health professionals from the El Paso U.S.-Mexico Border Region will be recruited to participate in a human papillomavirus (HPV) educational and professional skills intervention. Hypothesis: improving provider knowledge and communication strategies about HPV and its vaccine will reduce hesitancy and increase uptake and completion among eligible individuals through a tailored multi-media intervention to strengthen providers' ability to discuss HPV and vaccination in an informed and culturally competent manner, and increase subsequent provider recommendations.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
178
The provider education and professional skills intervention will involve audio and visual content and will be delivered in the English language.
The general provider education intervention will involve audio and visual content and will be delivered in the English language.
Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine
Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States
The University of Texas at El Paso, Border Biomedical Research Center
El Paso, Texas, United States
Between-group changes in proportions from post-intervention scores of the Healthcare Provider (HCP) Practices scale on the Healthcare Personnel Survey
8-item HCP Practices scale (HCP vaccine recommendations, HCP screening recommendations, HCP communication practices) scored on a Likert scale from Never (1) to Always (5)
Time frame: immediately post-intervention (0 months), 3 months post-intervention, and 6 months post-intervention
Between-group changes in proportions from post-intervention scores of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine Attitudes scale on the Healthcare Personnel Survey
9-item HPV Vaccine Attitudes scale (perceived safety, perceived harm, perceived effectiveness) scored on a Likert scale from Strongly disagree (1) to Strongly agree (5)
Time frame: immediately post-intervention (0 months), 3 months post-intervention, and 6 months post-intervention
Between-group changes in proportions from post-intervention scores on the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Knowledge scale on the Healthcare Personnel Survey
14-item HPV Knowledge scale scored as True (1) or False (0)
Time frame: immediately post-intervention (0 months), 3 months post-intervention, and 6 months post-intervention
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