Intervention for Medical Student to Promote Cervical Cancer Screening Among Latinx Transmasculine Individuals
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Cervical Cancer Trans Inclusive Education (CC-TRAINED) Module, Disaster Preparedness Course.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Clinical Competence, Medical Education, Cervical Cancer Screening. Basic parameters: from 21 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Testing the Effectiveness of an Intervention to Foster Cervical Cancer Screening Promotion for Latinx Trans Men Among Medical Students
Overview
The team aims to test the effectiveness of an intervention to increase gender-affirming cervical cancer prevention behaviors targeted at medical students studying in Puerto Rico and Florida. The team expects that after exposure to the intervention, relative to the control group, participants in the experimental condition will manifest more favorable changes in knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of adequate care towards Latinx transmasculine and non-binary people.
Detailed description
Transmen (TM) and non-binary individuals (NB; individuals assigned female sex at birth who identify as a man, male, or another diverse non-binary gender identity on the masculine spectrum) are at higher risk of screening-detectable cancers. Latinx TM-NB (LTM-NB) are at a higher risk for cervical cancer (CC) as they intersect two health disparity populations with high risk for this type of cancer (gender identity and ethnic minorities). Despite CC being highly preventable, LTM-NB individuals have been found to have lower rates of CC screening than cisgender female patients (persons who are not transgender). Unfortunately, findings from the team's previous funded studies with LTM-NB individuals in Puerto Rico (PR) and Florida evidence that providers lack knowledge regarding LTM-NB individual's healthcare needs, have negative stigmatizing attitudes, and manifest discriminatory behaviors in clinical interactions with LTM-NB individuals; which greatly limits their ability for engaging in recommended education and prevention guidelines of care for CC screening and prevention. In light of this, the research team (community stakeholders from PR and Mainland US, researchers, and providers) has developed a brief online intervention to improve medical students' competencies for cervical cancer education and screening promotion among LTM-NB individuals.
The proposed study aims to: 1) Test the effectiveness of the intervention in increasing medical students' knowledge, attitudes, and skills for providing healthcare to LTM-NB. , 2) Determine the acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of implementing the interventions in real-world medical educational settings.
While the team has preliminary data regarding the efficacy of the intervention, this pilot is proposing a rigorous study design: Aim 1 will measure the magnitude of effect of the intervention, and Aim 2 measures the implementation. This study will address cervical cancer disparities among LTM-NB individuals. The impact of this study will reveal new effective interventions and implementation strategies. The translational implications of this work will result in providing medical schools with a cross-cultural tool to train students on cervical cancer prevention for LTM-NB individuals.
Interventions
- Behavioral Cervical Cancer Trans Inclusive Education (CC-TRAINED) Module
An online course designed to increase cervical cancer prevention clinical skills among medical students when working with Latinx transmasculine populations. - Behavioral Disaster Preparedness Course
An online course designed to improve professionals' skills and competencies for engaging in disaster preparedness.
Primary outcome measures
- Change cervical cancer preventive behaviors, as determined by the Cervical Cancer Preventive Behaviors Inventory [Time frame: Baseline, immediately after the intervention]
- Change in LTMNB knowledge, as determined by Transmasculine knowledge index [Time frame: Baseline, immediately after the intervention]
- Change negative attitudes towards LTMNB, as determined by the transgender stigma scale [Time frame: Baseline, immediately after the intervention]
- Change negative and increase positive emotions related to LTMNB, as determined by the Emotional Reactions Scale [Time frame: Baseline, immediately after the intervention]
- Change cultural humility, as determined by the cross-cultural scale [Time frame: Baseline, immediately after the intervention]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Sex as a biological variable [Time frame: Baseline, immediately after the intervention]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Medical student currently in third year of medical school training
Exclusion criteria
- Do not speak English
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06844097 · 2308159535R001 · 2U54CA163071-11