Improving Health and Environmental Health Literacy of Professionals (IHEHLP)

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Treatments: Behavioral: Online educational phthalate course

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05879666

IRB22-1510

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to understand the impact of an educational intervention on reproductive health care providers' environmental health literacy related to phthalates. The main questions to answer are:

1. Does a web-based educational intervention improve the environmental health literacy of personal care product chemicals based on pre/post/post intervention survey data?
2. Does a web-based educational intervention improve reproductive health professionals' confidence and awareness for communication to patients on environmental health literacy?
3. Do concentrations of personal care product chemicals in reproductive health professionals decrease after the web-based educational intervention?

Participants will be asked to complete three surveys: one before the educational intervention, and two after the intervention. The will be asked to complete the approximately 1-hour online educational intervention, which consists of a series of videos from the perspectives of patients, OBGYNs, and researchers, an interactive module, and a worksheet to facilitate conversation with patients.

Enrollment: 213 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Employed in a patient-facing role relevant to reproductive health care (e.g., obstetricians, gynecologists, medical assistants, doulas, and nurses, etc.)

Exclusion criteria

• Practitioner does not interact with patients

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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213 participants in 1 patient group

Reproductive Health Professionals - EHL

Experimental group

Description:

All participants will complete a pre-course survey, engage in the online educational intervention, then complete 2 post-course surveys. They have the option to provide urine samples before and after the intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Online educational phthalate course