Standardized Patient Encounters to Improve PrEP Counseling for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Kenya (PrIYA-SP)
HIV/AIDS
About this trial
This is an interventional health services research trial for HIV/AIDS focused on measuring Adolescents, Young women, HIV care and treatment, Clinical training, Africa, Kenya
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: Listed by population
Facilities:
- Facilities located in a county in Western Kenya
- Currently offering PrEP services to adolescent girls and young women
Health care workers:
- Age 18 or older
- Current employee of one of the 24 study sites
- Able to provide consent
Exclusion Criteria: Listed by population
Facilities:
- Health facilities where PrEP services are staffed by contract workers, program, or study staff
Health care workers:
- Study staff seconded to the site as part of a trial or intervention
Sites / Locations
- Kenyatta National Hospital
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Training intervention
Standard of care control
In this cluster randomized control trial design, the experimental arm refers to the 12 study sites that are randomly assigned to receive the clinician training intervention. The intervention is a clinician training using standardized patient actors to improve communication and empathy skills of health care workers who deliver PrEP to adolescent girls and young women to prevent HIV.
In this randomized cluster randomized control trial design, the no intervention arm refers to the 12 study sites that are randomly assigned not to receive the clinician training intervention. Instead, these study sites will receive the standard of care, which is no standardized patient actor training, for health care workers who deliver PrEP to adolescent girls and young women to prevent HIV.