Clinical trial NCT04096053: Transgender Education for Affirmative and Competent HIV and Healthcare
Official title: 'Transgender Education for Affirmative and Competent HIV and Healthcare (TEACHH)': Protocol of Community-based Participatory Intervention Development and a Non-randomized Multi-site Pilot Study With Pre- Post-test Design
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Stigma, Social
HIV/AIDS
Health Care Acceptability
Lead sponsor: University of Toronto
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-09-19
Enrollment: 78
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: Educational workshops are an efficacious strategy to increase healthcare providers' ability to provide gender-affirming care for transgender (trans) people. This strategy may also reduce healthcare providers' stigma towards trans people and people living with HIV. There is less evidence, however, of educational workshops that address HIV prevention and care among trans women. This protocol details the development and pilot testing of the TEACHH: Transgender Education for Affirmative and Competent HIV and Healthcare intervention that aims to increase gender-affirming HIV care competency among healthcare providers.This community-based research (CBR) project involves intervention development and implementation of a non-randomized multi-site pilot study with pre- post-test design. First, the investigators will conduct a qualitative formative phase involving focus groups with 30 trans women and individual interviews with 12 providers to understand HIV care access barriers for trans women and elicit feedback on a proposed workshop. Second, the investigators will pilot test the intervention with 90-150 providers (n=30-50x3 in-person settings). Primary outcomes include feasibility (e.g., completion rate), workshop satisfaction, and willingness to attend another workshop. Secondary pre- and post-intervention outcomes, assessed directly preceding and following the workshop, include perceived competency, intention to provide gender-affirming HIV care, and attitudes/biases towards trans women with HIV. Primary outcomes will be summarized as frequencies and proportions (categorical variables) and means and standard deviations (continuous variables). The investigators will conduct paired-sample t tests to assess pre- and post-intervention differences for secondary outcomes.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Workshop participants must be 18 years or older and identify as working at a location that provides health or social services to trans women or being in-training to work in health or social services (e.g., medical student, social work student). Workshop participants may include a mix of HIV- and non-HIV service providers.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not fitting the above criteria.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Workshop Recruitment Rate
timeFrame: 3 hours
measure: Workshop Completion Rate
timeFrame: 3 hours
measure: Survey completion rate
timeFrame: 3 hours
measure: Satisfaction with the workshop
timeFrame: 3 hours
Secondary outcomes:
measure: attitudes/biases, perceived competency, and behavioral intention to provide gender- affirming HIV care to trans women living with HIV
timeFrame: 3 hours
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Toronto
country: Canada
facility: Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto
state: Ontario
Study officials:
References:
citation: Lacombe-Duncan A, Logie CH, Persad Y, Leblanc G, Nation K, Kia H, Scheim AI, Lyons T, Horemans C, Olawale R, Loutfy M. Implementation and evaluation of the 'Transgender Education for Affirmative and Competent HIV and Healthcare (TEACHH)' provider education pilot. BMC Med Educ. 2021 Nov 4;21(1):561. doi: 10.1186/s12909-021-02991-3.
citation: Lacombe-Duncan A, Logie CH, Persad Y, Leblanc G, Nation K, Kia H, Scheim AI, Lyons T, Loutfy M. 'Transgender Education for Affirmative and Competent HIV and Healthcare (TEACHH)': protocol of community-based intervention development and a non-randomised multisite pilot study with pre-post test design in Canada. BMJ Open. 2020 Jul 31;10(7):e034144. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034144.