Improving Quality of PrEP Counseling for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Kenya With Standardized Patient Actors: A Dose-Response Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health care worker (HCW) training using standardized patient actors (SPs) is an evidence-based approach for improving patient-provider interactions. We evaluated whether SP training among HCWs in Western Kenya improved the quality of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) counseling for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW).

Methods

We conducted a 2-day SP training intervention among HCWs providing PrEP counseling for AGYW. Six trained SPs role played one encounter each with HCWs following scripts depicting common PrEP-seeking scenarios. SPs used checklists to report and discuss domains of adherence to national PrEP guidelines, communication, and interpersonal skills using validated scales after each encounter. HCWs presented to each case in a random order. Overall and

SUBMITTER: Larsen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8665073 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature