
Overview
EPICC+ seeks to adapt existing evidence-based provider and patient education and support tools and materials (EBT) for use in young men who have sex with men (YMSM) and to train providers in the use of the EBT to facilitate PrEP shared decision making.
Background
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Study Description
This study involves three distinct aims to adapt and test the EBT:
Aim 1
Formative assessments with providers and patients to inform adaptation and enhancement of existing patient and provider PrEP EBT by conducting in-depth interviews and design workshops
Aim 2
Training providers on the use of newly developed EBT via virtual training workshops
Aim 3
Hybrid effectiveness – implementation pragmatic clinical trial with 540 YMSM
Objectives
To adapt existing EBT and materials in Aims 1 and 2
Effectiveness objectives: to test the efficacy of the EBT in increase PrEP adherence, retention in PrEP care, PrEP decision-making
Implementation objectives: provider use of a competence with adapted EBT in clinical practice
Our Team
Florida State University
Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH | Distinguished and Endowed McKenzie Professor in the College of Nursing | Founding Director of the Institute on Digital Health and Innovation
Kate Muessig, PhD | Institute on Digital Health and Innovation
Henna Budhwani, PhD, MPH | Professor, Center of Population Sciences for Health Equity
Sylvie Naar, PhD | Professor, Center for Translational Behavioral Science, College of Medicine
Kristina Claude, MPH | Institute on Digital Health and Innovation
Avery George | Youth Outreach Coordinator, Center for Translational Behavioral Science, College of Medicine
Jonathan Morgan | Center for Translational Behavioral Science, College of Medicine
Crissi Rainer, MS | Institute on Digital Health and Innovation
Aimee Rochelle, MPH | Institute on Digital Health and Innovation
University of North Carolina
MacKenzie Cottrell, PharmD, MS | Assistant Professor, Division of Pharmacotherapy & Experimental Therapeutics
Audrey Pettifor, PhD | Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Lina Rosengren-Hovee, MD, MPH, MS | Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Disease, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Medicine
FHI 360
Allysha Maragh-Bass, PhD | Scientist, Behavioral, Epidemiological and Clinical Sciences
Andrés Martinez | Statistician, Clinical Sciences
Elizabeth Tolley, PhD | Director of Behavioral, Epidemiological and Clinical Sciences
Amanda Souto | Research Program Manager
Ese Aikhuele | Research Assistant
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Findings and Takeaways
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What’s Next
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