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Patient Actor Training to Improve HIV Services for Adolescents in Kenya

NCT02928900 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 24

Last updated 2024-12-09

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Summary

The goal of this study is to develop and evaluate a clinical training intervention utilizing standardized patient actors to improve communication and interpersonal skills of health care workers who serve HIV-infected adolescents and youth in Kenya, resulting in increased engagement in HIV care. The effect of the intervention on retention in care will be evaluated in a stepped-wedge randomized controlled trial at 24 HIV care and treatment facilities.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Clinician training intervention

This intervention is a clinician training using SP actors to improve communication and empathy skills of HIV care providers who serve HIV-positive adolescents and youth in Kenya.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Pamela Kohler, PhD, MPH, RN · University of Washington

  • Dalton Wamalwa, MMed, MPH · University of Nairobi

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-09-26
Primary Completion
2020-11-02
Completion
2021-03-31

Countries

  • Kenya

Study Locations

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