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Purpose

Poor quality of primary care providers' vaccine recommendations lead to low adolescent human papillomavirus vaccination rates and hundreds of thousands of adolescents unnecessarily at risk for HPV-associated cancers and diseases. Though a previous provider communication intervention, called PCOM, was found to be effective for increasing adolescent HPV vaccination in primary care, its dissemination is limited by the need for significant research team involvement to teach providers how to use the intervention's components. To address this, investigators propose to develop and test a virtual version of PCOM, use mixed methods to assess contextual factors affecting its use compared to the original PCOM intervention, and develop an optimized version of PCOM for broad dissemination to increase adolescent HPV vaccination nationally.

Conditions

Eligibility

Eligible Ages
Between 9 Years and 17 Years
Eligible Genders
All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
No

Inclusion Criteria

  • Parents: Have an adolescent between the ages of 9-17 years old and receiving adolescent care at an enrolled clinic - Providers: All providers at participating study practices will be eligible to participate.

Exclusion Criteria

  • Parents: Does not have an adolescent between the ages of 9-17 years old and is not receiving adolescent care at an enrolled clinic - Providers: Providers who are not at participating study practices

Study Design

Phase
N/A
Study Type
Interventional
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention Model
Parallel Assignment
Primary Purpose
Health Services Research
Masking
Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Masking Description
Data analysts on the study team

Arm Groups

ArmDescriptionAssigned Intervention
Active Comparator
PCOM Standard Arm 		Providers in participating in the PCOM-standard intervention will be trained on optimizing an in-person provider communication technique about HPV vaccination by training primary care providers in a 2-step verbal communication process: 1) to start the HPV vaccine discussion using a "presumptive" format, and 2) to use motivational interviewing (MI) techniques to address parental vaccine hesitancy.
  • Behavioral: Physician Communication Standard (PCOM-standard)
    The PCOM-standard intervention is based off of a provider communication training that utilizes presumptive technique when initiating the vaccine discussion followed by motivational interviewing if a parent continues to show hesitation. PCOM-standard will be conducted in-person with providers.
Experimental
PCOM2 Virtual Arm 		Providers participating in the PCOM2-virtual arm will receive training on this communication method through an adapted virtual model of PCOM-standard. PCOM2-Virtual intervention will result in a "shelf ready" intervention and associated "User Manual" that can be easily incorporated into practices broadly to improve the practice's adolescent HPV vaccination rates. PCOM-Virtual arm will then be compared to that of the original PCOM-standard intervention in its efficacy for increasing HPV vaccination among adolescents.
  • Behavioral: Physician Communication 2 Virtual (PCOM2-virtual)
    The PCOM-standard intervention is based off of a provider communication training that utilizes presumptive technique when initiating the vaccine discussion followed by motivational interviewing if a parent continues to show hesitation. While this provider communication technique previously showed success in increasing HPV vaccination uptake, it is neither easy to disseminate nor sustainable due to it's nature of direct, intensive in-person training. Therefore, the intervention is to compare the standard-PCOM intervention to a new, PCOM2 intervention, that will be adapted virtually.

Recruiting Locations

University of Kansas Medical Center
Wichita, Kansas 67208
Contact:
Evelyn English
eenglish4@kumc.edu

More Details

Status
Recruiting
Sponsor
University of Colorado, Denver

Study Contact

Christine Spina, MSPH
303.724.0906
CHRISTINE.BABBEL@CUANSCHUTZ.EDU

Detailed Description

The overarching goal is to develop a "Virtual" version of the PCOM intervention ("PCOM-Virtual") and compare its efficacy for increasing HPV vaccination among adolescents to that of the original PCOM intervention ("PCOM-Standard"). Using Dissemination & Implementation (D&I) science principles to develop and evaluate the PCOM-Virtual intervention for non-inferiority, investigators anticipate that to have a "shelf ready" intervention and associated "User Manual" that can be easily incorporated into practices broadly to improve the practice's adolescent HPV vaccination rates. Specific Aims are to: (1) develop the "PCOM-Virtual" intervention using principles of D&I Science; (2) compare the efficacy of "PCOM-Virtual" versus "PCOM-Standard" in improving adolescent HPV vaccine utilization; and (3) examine whether practice, patient and provider characteristics are associated with variability in the efficacy of PCOM-Virtual and PCOM-Standard.

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