University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois, 60637, United States
NCT Number: NCT05818254
While the HOP-STEP (Healthy Outcomes in Pregnancy with SLE Through Education of Providers) program has been demonstrated to be effective in improving provider confidence, increasing contraception documentation, and facilitating equitable pregnancy planning care in a single sub-specialty clinic here at Duke, the delivery of HOP-STEP may need to be changed to increase its fit with the local context at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) and subsequent locations. Thus, the investigators will now fit the intervention into a high-minority, high-poverty academic rheumatology center, and later pilot it through a randomized trial to identify and overcome existing barriers to equitable pregnancy prevention and planning at another institution (The University of Chicago Medical Center). The objective of this study is to prepare for a multi-center trial of the HOP-STEP intervention by fitting and then piloting its implementation and measuring its potential impact on maternal outcomes.
This study is active but is not currently recruiting participants.
18 year and older
All sexes
Interventional
Not applicable
Chicago, Illinois, 60637, United States
The study creates opportunities for SLE (systemic lupus erythematosus) patients seeking reproductive care by restructuring the rheumatology clinic environment. Specifically through:
Aim 1: Fit the implementation of the HOP-STEP Intervention to the local Rheumatology specialty clinic context with key stakeholder input.
Aim 2: Evaluation of a pilot trial of the HOP-STEP Intervention. At the completion of this study, the investigators will know how to equitably implement and study the HOP-STEP Intervention within an academic rheumatology setting that cares for a high-minority, high-poverty population of women with SLE.
Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes
Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.
Provider Inclusion Criteria: Rheumatology providers who have seen at least 6 females 18-44 years old within the last year (at least 3 if provider has been at UCMC clinics for less than a year).
Exclusion criteria
Rheumatology Fellows*. Does not consent to join the study.
The HOP-STEP Intervention is simple with 3-steps: (1) ascertain and document current pregnancy intention and contraceptive use, (2) patient and provider collaboratively arrive at her optimal contraceptive and/or pregnancy plan using a Decision Guide directed conversation, and (3) create a warm handoff with a patient-specific SLE risk assessment and guideline-aligned recommendations.
Providers will continue to provide reproductive healthcare in their current manner.
Time frame: Intervention Period, up to 12 months
Yes/No: Documentation of contraception use during patient visit; includes if the provider documents that the patient does not use any contraception. This is extracted from the patient's medical record and is part of the HOP-STEP intervention. This will also be analyzed by patient-level characteristics: race, age, teratogen use. Denominator: all eligible patients.
Time frame: Intervention Period, up to 12 months
Yes/No: Documentation of the patient's pregnancy intention during patient visit. This is extracted from the patient's medical record and is part of the HOP-STEP intervention. This will also be analyzed by patient-level characteristics: race, age, teratogen use. Denominator: all eligible patients.
Time frame: Intervention Period, up to 12 months
Yes/No: Documentation of any contraceptive counseling during patient visit. Denominator: all eligible patients.
Time frame: Intervention Period, up to 12 months
Yes/No: Documentation of any pregnancy planning during patient visit. Denominator: all eligible patients.
This is extracted from the patient's medical record. This will also be analyzed by patient-level characteristics: race, age, teratogen use.
Time frame: Intervention Period, up to 12 months
Yes/No: documentation of use of contraception aligned with ACR RHG a rheumatology clinic visit within 6 months of a visit in the Intervention Period. ACR RHG guidelines recommend:
Time frame: Intervention Period, up to 12 months
Yes/No: documentation of use of an effective or highly effective contraception at a Rheumatology clinic visit in the Intervention Period. Effective and highly effective contraception includes hormonal contraception, long-acting reversible contraception, and permanent contraception or the physical inability to get pregnant (menopause, hysterectomy, oophorectomy). Denominator: Eligible patients excluding pregnant women or women who have a documented pregnancy intention AND are medically optimized for pregnancy. This is extracted from the patient's medical record.
Time frame: Intervention Period, up to 12 months
Yes/No: documentation of use of an effective or highly effective contraception at any Rheumatology clinic visit within 6 months of a visit in the Intervention Period. Denominator: Eligible non-pregnant women who have documentation of either no contraceptive use or low efficacy contraception at a prior rheumatology visit in the Intervention Period. Women without contraception documentation are excluded from this analysis. Effective and highly effective contraception includes hormonal contraception, long-acting reversible contraception, and permanent contraception or the physical inability to get pregnant (menopause, hysterectomy, oophorectomy). Low Efficacy Contraception includes condom, diaphragm, sponge, cervical cap, spermicide, fertility awareness, withdrawal method. This is extracted from the patient's medical record.
Time frame: Intervention Period, up to 12 months
Yes/No: conception is aligned with ACR recommendations. Denominator: All pregnancies conceived within 6 months of a rheumatology visit in the Intervention Period.
Medically optimized for pregnancy is defined as meeting all 3 criteria:
Time frame: Intervention Period, up to 12 months
Yes/No: provider that has documentation of completing the whole HOP-STEP intervention with one or more of their patients. Completing the whole HOP-STEP Intervention is defined as documenting all three components of the intervention: current contraception, pregnancy intention, and ACR-aligned contraception and/or pregnancy planning counseling. This is extracted from the provider's patients' medical records and will also be examined by the provider's race, age, gender, and proportion of SLE patients within a provider's practice.
Time frame: Intervention Period, up to 12 months
Per provider, the number of eligible patients who received the whole HOP-STEP Intervention at one or more of their visits. Denominator: eligible patients cared for by the provider during the Intervention Period. This is extracted from the provider's patients' medical records and will also be examined by the provider's race, age, gender, and proportion of SLE patients within a provider's practice.
Time frame: Intervention Period, up to 12 months
Yes/No: contraception recommendations aligned with the ACR RHG. Denominator: eligible patients who received any contraception recommendation. This is extracted from the patient's medical record. This will also be analyzed by patient-level characteristics: race, age, teratogen use.
Time frame: Intervention Period, up to 12 months
Yes/No: pregnancy planning recommendations aligned with the ACR RHG. Denominator: eligible patients who received any pregnancy planning. This is extracted from the patient's medical record.
Time frame: Intervention Period, up to 12 months
1.) when and how a change is made, 2.) whether the change was planned or not, 3.) who determined that the change could be made, 4.) what the change was, 5.) where within the delivery the change was made, 6.) the type of content- or context-level change, 7.) the degree that the change is consistent with intervention fidelity, and 8.) the reasons for the change, including intended impact on equity of reach, adoption, effectiveness, and/or maintenance of the HOP-STEP intervention.
Duke University
Other
The HOP-STEP (Healthy Outcomes in Pregnancy With SLE Through Education of Providers) Intervention: Improving Maternal Health in Women With Lupus Through Improved Pregnancy Prevention and Planning sIRB
Acronym: HOP-STEPsIRB
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