Motivational Interviewing for HCV Elimination

Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA)

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Hepatitis C

Treatments: Behavioral: Motivational Interviewing Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03804814

SAIL-003

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study addresses a difficult barrier to hepatitis C elimination, specifically development and maintenance of a productive relationship between the health care provider and patient to ensure both treatment success and engagement in harm reduction services. Improvements in these domains may be observed through the use of a technique called "Motivational Interviewing" (MI). The aim of this study is to determine whether a customized motivational interviewing curriculum by general primary care and addictions medicine primary care providers changes rates of curative hepatitis C therapy completion.

Enrollment: 2 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Patient Inclusion Criteria:

• Willingness to participate and provide informed consent
• Positive HCV RNA Result
• ≥18 years of age

Patient Exclusion Criteria:

• Unwilling or unable to provide consent

Health Care Provider Inclusion Criteria:

• Willingness to participate and provide informed consent
• Has a hepatitis C care experience

Health Care Provider Exclusion Criteria:

• Unwilling or unable to provide consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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2 participants in 2 patient groups

Motivational Interviewing Training

Active Comparator group

Description:

Health care providers will be trained in motivational interviewing for use in Hepatitis C patient encounters.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motivational Interviewing Training

Standard Clinical Encounter

No Intervention group

Description:

Health care providers will not be trained in motivational interviewing for use in Hepatitis C patient encounters.