People Living With HIV, Oral and Oropharyngeal Cancer, and Health Equity

Part of paid clinical trials in San Francisco, California.

Sponsor
University of California, San Francisco
Study ID
NCT06055868
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

  • HIV Infections
  • Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
  • Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
18 Years - N/A
Healthy Volunteers
Not accepted

Interventions

  • Group Meeting (Focus Group) — OTHER
    Focus Group Discussions (FDGs) will be recorded, transcribed, and coded.
  • Questionnaires — OTHER
    Given electronically or via phone by study team staff

Study Details

This is an exploratory qualitative study among People Living With HIV (PLWH) of diverse racial/ethnic and sexual and gender minority (SGM) identities to explore individual, interpersonal, and structural oral health equity factors that serve as barriers or facilitators of accessing oral health care, knowledge and perceptions of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) /Oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC), and to collect recommendations on how to increase access to oral health care and engage PLWH in OSCC/OPSCC prevention.

Key Dates

Start date
Feb 13, 2025
Status verified
Mar 2025
Primary completion
Nov 30, 2029
Completion
Nov 30, 2029

Study Design

Enrollment
144 participants (estimated)

Arms

  • Arm: Qualitative Focus Group
    Participants will be asked to a series of questions to help place them in a focus group with other individuals of shared identity and will also complete a short quantitative survey either emailed to the participant or the outreach worker/study coordinator will administer the survey by phone. Participants will then participate in one 1.5-2 hour, facilitated, focus group discussions (FGD).

Primary Outcome Measure

Identification of potential oral health equity factors [ Time Frame: Up to 3 days ]

Central Contacts

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
University of California, San FranciscoSan FranciscoCalifornia94143
William Juarez
[email protected]
415-437-7439
Alexandra Hernandez Levenston, PhD, MPH (PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR)
Joel Palefsky, MD (SUB_INVESTIGATOR)

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