NCT04096053

Transgender Education for Affirmative and Competent HIV and Healthcare

'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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 78 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Toronto · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Conditions

• Stigma, Social
• HIV/AIDS
• Health Care Acceptability

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	TEACHH	See arm/group description.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-09-01
• Primary completion: 2020-03-31
• Completion: 2020-03-31
• First posted: 2019-09-19
• Last updated: 2020-07-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada