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Intervention to Reduce Implicit Bias in Pharmacies

Not Yet RecruitingNA

Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital

Conditions: Bias, Implicit, HIV, Pre-exposure Prophylaxis

Interventions: The adapted PHBI, The NIH Implicit Bias course

Countries: United States

This study will follow the ADAPT-ITT model to apply the Prejudice Habit Breaking Intervention (PHBI) to pharmacists who have experience with or are willing to prescribe PrEP. We will first collect qualitative data through focus group discussions guided by the Health Equity Implementation Framework (HEIF) on determinants related to the intervention itself, pharmacists, and the community pharmacy context that may impact implementation of the PHBI. Then, we will use this information to adapt the PHBI in an iterative process involving topic experts, pharmacists, and PrEP users. We will then determine the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary impact of the adapted PHBI to reduce implicit racial bias.

Eligibility overview

Sex: ALL

Age: 18 Years to 65 Years

Healthy volunteers: Yes

Study type: INTERVENTIONAL

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Three types of participants will be included

1. Pharmacy interns:

   * Pharmacy intern (non-licensed individual undergoing training and preparations for licensure examination).
   * Currently registered as a regular student in the School of Pharmacy, Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
   * Doing the internship in pharmacies located in cities with the highest average annual rate of HIV infection diagnosis in Suffolk County, MA.
   * Experience with PrEP (counsel PrEP candidates, complete PrEP continuing education activity, or awareness with current CDC guidelines on PrEP use) OR willingness to prescribe PrEP in the future (will be measured with one Yes/No question: "Are you willing to prescribe PrEP in the future?)
   * Moderate to high preference for White people as measured by the Implicit Association Test.
2. Pharmacy managers

   * Defined as an individual designated by a pharmacy owner to manage a pharmacy.
   * Pharmacy managers of pharmacies located in the same areas described above.
3. Pharmacy policymaker defined as official employee of the Boards of Registration in Pharmacy whose role is directly related to community pharmacy practice (e.g., director of pharmacy compliance).

Exclusion Criteria:

Inability to provide consent (e.g., intoxication), unwillingness to provide consent

Locations (1)

Boston, Massachusetts, United States