Clinic-based Intervention to Promote Cervical Cancer Prevention Behaviors (StepUp)

University of Pennsylvania

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cervical Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Offered HPV vaccine only; Behavioral: Step Up to Prevention:belief; Behavioral: Step Up to Prevention: knowledge; Behavioral: Step Up to Prevention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02046265

StepUpToPrevention

Details and patient eligibility

About

The project is a clinical behavioral research project based at University of Pennsylvania. The goal of this research is to design a brief clinic-based, Nurse Practitioner-guided, and theory-based health promotion intervention to enhance cervical cancer prevention among young women ages 18-26 living in economically disadvantaged urban communities. The investigators will evaluate the intervention for feasibility, acceptability and preliminary efficacy.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 26 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18-26 years
• Not yet received the HPV vaccine
• Speak, read, and understand 5th grade level of English;
• Had vaginal sex with a male partner in the past 2 months.

Exclusion criteria

• Currently pregnant and/or plan to be pregnant in next 6 months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 4 patient groups

Step Up to Prevention: knowledge

Experimental group

Description:

Participant receives an individual computer-delivered information session and participant is offered the HPV vaccine only by their nurse practitioner in clinic.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Step Up to Prevention: knowledge

Step Up to Prevention:belief

Experimental group

Description:

Participant receives a one-on-one tailored educational session with a trained study team member and participant is offered the HPV vaccine only by their nurse practitioner in clinic.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Step Up to Prevention:belief

Step up to Prevention

Experimental group

Description:

Participant receives both the knowledge session and the tailored belief sessions and the participant is offered the HPV vaccine only by their nurse practitioner in clinic. This combined intervention is call Step Up to Prevention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Step Up to Prevention

Offered HPV vaccine only

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participant is offered the HPV vaccine only by their nurse practitioner in clinic.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Offered HPV vaccine only