Avatar Contraception Communication Training
ConditionCommunication
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
About this trial
In order to support the desire of most adolescents to delay pregnancy (parenting) until their own adulthood, pediatricians must be comfortable and skilled in having reproductive health conversations with adolescents and the mothers of adolescents. Advocates for Youth (AFY), a national, youth-facing, well-established, non-profit, is known for innovative sexual and reproductive health programs. AFY successfully implemented a virtual simulation for schoolteachers to practice sex education scenarios by interacting with culturally diverse student avatars. We will partner with AFY to adapt their novel simulation-based approach to train medical residents in using SDM with youth and parent avatars. Our long-term goal is to build clinician confidence in SDM and actual skills via simulation training with dyadic avatars. We will also explore how evaluation of clinician communication skills varies from youth-, parent-, and clinician-viewpoints.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
Providers (medical residents, fellows, attendings)
Recruited from the Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Medicine Clinic at Children's Medical Center of Dallas.
Disqualifiers
Unable to speak or read in Spanish/English
Trial design
Design model
Single group
Treatments tested in this trial
avatar communication training
BehavioralAvatar simulates a mother and a daughter for the pediatrician to practice communication about contraception.
Treatment groups
166 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment groupGroup A: Avatar trainingExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Questionnaire
Multiple questions will be aggregated to arrive at one reported value to determine "improvement or stability in confidence" in shared decision-making communication.
Time frame
Change from baseline (T0) at 0 hours, and end of training (T2) at 2 hoursSecondary outcomes
1
Acceptability Questionnaire
Weiners implementation outcome measure Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM). Items are measured on a 5-point Likert scale (Completely Disagree-Completely Agree). Score is calculated mean with the higher score meaning acceptability.
Time frame
At end of study (T2) at 2-hours2
Questionnaire
Self-reported evaluation of a behavioral outcome (SDM (shared decision-making) skills and PCCC (person-centered contraception counseling) from start (T1) to end of training (T2)
Time frame
Change from start (T1) at 20 minute to end of training (T2) at 2 hours3
Questionnaire
Expert evaluation of behavioral outcome (SDM (shared decision-making) skills and PCCC (person-centered contraception counseling) from start (T1) to end of training (T2)
Time frame
Change from start (T1) at 20 minute to end of training (T2) at 2 hoursSponsors and contacts
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Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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