EPIS
Protocol Number: ATN153
Leads: April Carcone & Karin Coyle
Summary: Effectiveness-Implementation Research to enhance HIV-related self-management among youth. The EPIS model has four phases – Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment – and examines contextual factors at two primary levels: outer and inner. The outer context represents larger, often external, factors that can either support or slow implementation, such as federal, state, county or local policies, funding and mandates, and organizational relationships. The inner context represents what is happening within a community or organization that is implementing an evidence-based practice, such as staffing, policies and procedures, and organizational culture and climate. Learn more by reading this EPIS Overview or the EPIS Framework.
Cascade Monitoring
Protocol Number: ATN154
Leads: Jason Chapman & Amy Pennar
Summary: All 11 sites across the U19 will provide de-identified patient data from electronic medical records regarding demographics and HIV treatment cascade variables (counseling and testing, new diagnoses, linkage to care, appointment adherence, and viral load) over a five year period. These data, to be assessed quarterly and reported annually, will provide rough but rapid estimations of demographic indices and measures of response (such as percent viral suppression, PrEP uptake). Data will be examined for trends in the HIV epidemic known as the treatment cascade, provide useful indicators of the epidemic at large for providers and community members, and give vital feedback to the sites themselves.
Communication Science
Lead: April Carcone
Summary: Patient-provider communication will be explored as a mechanism of change across all projects (including other U19s). Sequential analysis will be done to determine what provider communication behaviors directly relate to patient motivational statements (“change talk”). Then the relationship between change talk and outcome will be assessed. Motivational interviewing (MI) will be used as a framework using the Minority Youth Sequential Code of Process Exchanges (MY-SCOPE), adapted from existing MI coding schemes. This analysis generates transition probabilities for patient-provider communication sequences allowing the provider characteristics to predict providers' use of patient-centered communication strategies.
Self-Management Model
Lead: Amy Pennar
Summary: Projects that collect data directly from youth will include the same measures assessing the Five Components of Self-Management Model. Measures will be chosen in collaboration with research project Leads and the ATN4 Executive Committee. Sample measures include: a) the BRIEF to assess both problem solving and decision-making; b) the Measure of Process of Care-20 in which participants rate the relationship with their providers; c) an adapted version of the Services and Support measure utilized in ATN 004 (Healthy Choices) to capture participant self-report of health care and related services; and, d) self-reported medication adherence and condom use and viral suppression. The model will be tested across projects using structural equation modeling (Grady & Gough, 2014).
Bioethical Issues in Engaging Lost to Follow Up Youth in HIV Care and Research
Protocol Number: ATN164
Lead: Meardith Pooler Burgess & Sara Green
Summary: Youth at risk for HIV and youth living with HIV are not well represented in research related to sexual health. The reasons behind this include concerns around safety, privacy, and potential harm. By seeking to better understand the views of young people living with HIV, researchers may help improve methods and programs that help HIV position youth feel comfortable in participating in research studies and get the care they need.
- This virtual research study intends to help youth that are living with HIV.
- We would like to understand views of cultural and ethical issues that may make it hard for young people to stay in HIV care and engage in HIV research.
YLHC+ : Piloting a Youth Learning Community - Innovations in Big Data and Implementation Science to End the Youth HIV Epidemic in Florida
Protocol Number: ATN165
Lead: Sylvie Naar, Sara Green
Summary: In collaboration with Florida Department of Health and Area 7 HIV/AIDS Program Office, this Ending the Youth HIV Epidemic in Florida demonstration project is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Adolescent Trials Networks for HIV/AIDS (ATN).
This study proposes to pilot test a Youth Learning Health Community plus healthforce training to end the HIV epidemic in young people in Florida (Y-LHC+). The Y-LHC+ includes workforce development within public health agencies or community-based organizations (CBOs), with structured county-wide strategic planning and accessible comprehensive health outcomes data.