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The National Prisons Hepatitis Education Program (HepPEd Program) is a national, prison-based hepatitis C health literacy education program for healthcare providers, correctional officers, and people in prison. The HepPEd Program aims to improve the public health literacy of the prison sector regarding hepatitis C in prisons. The HepPEd: Research Evaluation aims to evaluate the impact of the HepPEd Program on HCV testing and treatment uptake amongst people incarcerated in Australian prisons, as well as changes in knowledge, attitudes, and capabilities of healthcare providers, correctional officers, and people in prison. The study is a controlled before and after study being conducted in 3-6 correctional centres in Australia.


Clinical Trial Description

The National Prisons Hepatitis Education Program (HepPEd Program) is a national, prison-based hepatitis C health literacy education program for healthcare providers, correctional officers, and people in prison. The broad goal of HepPEd: Research Evaluation is to measure the impact of a prison-specific hepatitis C (HCV) education program (the HepPEd Program) on enhancing HCV testing and treatment rates in Australian prisons. The HepPEd Program aims to improve HCV testing and treatment rates by enhancing the public health literacy of the prison sector regarding HCV in the prisons (that is the knowledge, attitudes and behaviours), and specifically targets the three key audience groups from the prison setting: healthcare providers, correctional officers, and people in prison. The study will be conducted as a prison-level, controlled before-and-after trial with a primary objective of evaluating the impact of the HepPEd Program on HCV treatment uptake amongst people incarcerated in Australian prisons. Three to six Australian correctional centres will be selected to participate in the 9-month study. Each correctional centre will have a 3-month period of pre-intervention surveillance, involving monthly observation of HCV treatment uptake under existing operations. This will be followed by a three-month period of education delivery of the HepPEd Program (the 'education intervention'). The monthly surveillance data collection will continue during the intervention period. Finally, each correctional centre will have another 3-month period of post-intervention surveillance, again involving monthly surveillance of HCV treatment rates. Surveys will be conducted with members from each target audience group before and after the education intervention and dried blood spot testing will be conducted with members from the people in prison group to assess baseline HCV prevalence before the education intervention. ;


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NCT number NCT05942937
Study type Interventional
Source Kirby Institute
Contact Andrew Lloyd
Phone 02 9385 2534
Email a.lloyd@unsw.edu.au
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date September 4, 2023
Completion date December 2024

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