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| K23MH119976 | U.S. NIH Grant/Contract | View source |
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| National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) | NIH |
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Many studies show early detection of sexual activity in adolescents can improve their health management and that primary care pediatricians would benefit from supports to address adolescent health, including sexual and reproductive health. The primary objective of this study is to develop and evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and usability of a sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing clinical decision support (CDS) tool within the electronic health record (EHR) among clinicians, adolescent patients, and their parents. Secondary objectives include assessment of the CDS tool's impact on clinical measures. The STI Testing CDS tool will be embedded within clinical practice and evaluated through a single-armed prospective cohort study of primary care clinicians, adolescent patients, and parents. The STI Testing CDS tool that will support pediatric clinicians by providing evidence-based sexual health-related screening, treatment, and referrals, as needed.
The STI Testing CDS tool will be embedded within the electronic health record (EHR) and will be evaluated to include feasibility (through medical record review for EHR utilization data), pediatric clinician acceptability and usability of the intervention (using surveys and semi-structured interviews), and adolescent and parent acceptability of the approach (using surveys). The secondary outcomes include measures of clinical impact, including ordering (and the results) of gonorrhea, chlamydia, and HIV screening labs.
Three cohorts of participants will be involved in the study: 1) Clinicians (attending physicians, nurse practitioners, and pediatric residents), 2) their English-speaking adolescent patients, and 3) their parents at included primary care sites.
The first 100 adolescent patients for whom the CDS tool is used will be approached in-person or remotely via text message or phone call after the clinical visit to complete a brief survey on the acceptability of the treatment provided at the visit, acceptability of that treatment, satisfaction with potential treatment outcomes, and if they engaged in any conversations with their parent(s) about any treatment provided at the visit.
Similarly, parents of those first 100 adolescent patients will be approached in-person or remotely via text message or phone call after the clinical visit to complete a brief survey on the acceptability of the approach to adolescent care workflow (not any specifics about the actual care provided) as well as any conversations about the visit that occurred between the parent and adolescent after the visit. Contact information, including phone number, for potential adolescent and parent participants will be retrieved from the adolescent's medical record. Additionally, Investigators will approach 50 pediatric clinicians in-person or remotely via email to complete a brief survey and semi-structured interview on the feasibility, acceptability, and usability of the CDS tool. Pediatric clinicians are eligible if they care for adolescent patients and have used the STI Testing CDS tool in practice.
Results from clinician surveys and semi-structured interviews will ensure that the CDS tool design meets clinicians' needs - ensuring a level of usability, functionality, and usefulness that supports pediatric clinicians' delivery of sexual and reproductive health care services to adolescents.
Secondary outcome measures aimed at assessing the clinical impact of the STI Testing CDS tool will include:
This study presents no more than minimal risk to study participants, as this is a study aimed to assess the creation of a tool that helps to improve upon the current delivery of sexual and reproductive health services provided through pediatric primary care.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| CDS Tool Evaluation | Experimental | All participants will receive intervention and feasibility, acceptability, and usability of intervention will be assessed from each participant cohort group. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing clinical decision support (CDS) tool | Other | The intervention, called the STI Testing CDS tool, includes integrating STI testing guideline prompts into the electronic health record (EHR). The prompt guides clinicians to assess and broadly respond to adolescents' sexual health behaviors through EHR survey data. Through the CDS tool, clinicians will be prompted to provide comprehensive and evidence-based sexual health care for teens including, for example: providing patient-facing education about sexual preventative health topics and facilitating ordering of HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) laboratory tests to improve both risk-based and routine annual preventative screening. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Usability of a sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing clinical decision support (CDS) tool among clinicians as assessed by the SUS. | The System Usability Scale (SUS) is a validated 10-item tool used for measuring subjective assessments of usability. This survey will be presented to pediatric clinicians using the sexual reproductive health (SRH) CDS tool and they will be asked to rate how much they agree/disagree with 10 statements related to the tool's usability. | 1 day |
| Acceptability of a sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing clinical decision support (CDS) tool among clinicians as assessed through qualitative interviews. | Qualitative interviews will be conducted with pediatric clinicians who use the CDS tool. This interview will be one-on-one and ask questions that assess attitudes towards using the tool and feedback on how to improve the tool. | 1 day |
| Feasibility of a sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing clinical decision support (CDS) tool among clinicians as assessed through qualitative interviews. | Qualitative interviews will be conducted with pediatric clinicians who use the CDS tool. This interview will be one-on-one and ask questions that assess feasibility of consistently using the tool in practice and feedback on how to improve use of the tool within the adolescent encounter. | 1 day |
| Acceptability of a sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing clinical decision support (CDS) tool among adolescents | This will be measured through a survey for adolescents who presented for a well child care visit and completed the Adolescent Health Questionnaire (a health screener used as standard care in all well child care visits). The survey consists of 36 potential questions about acceptability of a questionnaire part of standard well visits and of potential reproductive health services they received during their visit, attitudes towards privacy of their visit and discussions with their provider, & feedback on discussions that occurred between them and a parent/guardian after their visit. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Assessment of the CDS tool's impact on the number of sexually transmitted infection/human immunodeficiency virus (STI/HIV) tests ordered. | This will be measured by the difference in pre- and post-intervention metrics for the number of gonorrhea, chlamydia, and HIV tests ordered as a result of the CDS tool. These metrics will be measured by pre- and post-intervention data analytics provided by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHI). |
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Exclusion Criteria:
• Subjects who do not meet the above inclusion criteria will be excluded.
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Brian P. Jenssen, MD | Primary care pediatrician and researcher | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19146 | United States |
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| D003075 | Coitus |
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| D012725 | Sexual Behavior |
| D001519 | Behavior |
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| D016250 | Compact Disks |
| D004864 | Equipment and Supplies |
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| D014742 | Videodisc Recording |
| D016249 | Optical Storage Devices |
| D001296 | Audiovisual Aids |
| D018961 | Educational Technology |
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Single arm prospective cohort study
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| Acceptability of a sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing clinical decision support (CDS) tool among parents of adolescents | This will be measured through a survey for parents of adolescents who were present during their child's well child care visit. The survey consists of 22 potential questions about acceptability of a questionnaire that includes measuring perspectives on sexual healthcare for teens as part of standard well care, acceptability of their child receiving confidential services part of standard well care, & feedback on discussions that occurred between them and their child after their visit. | 1 day |
| up to 2 years |
| Assessment of the CDS tool's impact on the number of positive STI/HIV tests. | This will be measured by the difference in pre- and post-intervention metrics for the number of positive STI/HIV tests as a result of the CDS tool. These metrics will be measured by pre- and post-intervention data analytics provided by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHI). | up to 2 years |
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| Technology |
| D013676 | Technology, Industry, and Agriculture |
| D013690 | Television |