Transgender Health: an Educational RCT

Yale University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Transgender; Health Attitude

Treatments: Other: Short videos

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05080335

2000028980_c

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing two different educational approaches on the healthcare of transgender and gender expansive (TGE) youth. Finding best practices to educate healthcare providers and the community at large stand to make an impact on the mental health of TGE youth by helping them feel more welcome and better understood by the communities in which they live.

The study aims are to evaluate two educational interventions: 1) The inclusion of a video clip component of two TGE youth (Video [V] vs No video [N]) into a one-hour didactic; and 2) The delivery of the same didactic content by a cis- [C] vs a trans-gender [TG] woman.

Full description

This will be a randomized control trial (RCT) of equal allotment to one of four parallel didactic conditions. The investigators will randomly assign participants to one of three teaching conditions: 1) Trans Video [TV]; 2) Cis Video [CV]; and 3) Cis No video [CN]. Participants will complete a baseline assessment (PRE) before the start of the same didactic content, but delivered in the three different ways described above. This design will help the investigators make comparisons across video use (yes/no), about type of presenter (trans/cis), and about the interaction of the two approaches. For the 'no video' condition (CN), the didactic will not include the videos until after completion of the POST assessment.

The study design will ensure that all participants will receive the exact same didactic content during whichever session they attend. All participants will then receive a follow up questionnaire two weeks later (2WK POST) to assess content retention.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• English-speaking
• Living in the US
• Ages GE 18

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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200 participants in 4 patient groups

TRANS-gender female instructor, with videos (TV)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Didactic materials use embedded WITH short videos of transgender youth; lesson led by a TRANS-gender woman with extensive experience as an educator on transgender health

Treatment:

Other: Short videos

CIS-gender female instructor, with videos (CV)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Didactic materials use embedded WITH short videos of transgender youth; lesson led by a CIS-gender woman with extensive experience as an educator on transgender health

Treatment:

Other: Short videos

CIS-gender female, with NO videos (CN)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Didactic materials do NOT use short videos of transgender youth \[until AFTER completion of the POST outcome measures\]; lesson is led by a CIS-gender woman with extensive experience as an educator on transgender health

Treatment:

Other: Short videos

No intervention control

No Intervention group

Description:

Subjects randomized to this arm will complete the baseline assessment and the post assessment thirty days later, but just \*before\* receiving the intervention (TV).