Building the Capacity of PCPs to Eliminate Stigma Through a Research-Informed Training Model
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: We intentionally centered the voices of historically excluded patient populations in the design of a national primary care practitioner (PCP) training intervention. We sought out patient counter-narratives on HIV/PrEP and COVID vaccine screenings to co-exist with a structured literature review. Doing so allowed our training efforts to understand, disrupt, and reshape systems of power. After our team published a scoping review protocol on both screenings, we identified themes from key informant interviews (n=9) with minoritized patients and PCPs using the Socio-Ecological Model as a theoretical guide for our analysis. Reporting on our research process is beyond the scope of this commentary. Instead, we focus in this paper on what we learned from our research to inform our nine-part PCP training series. Major findings were that PCPs are largely unaware and/or unfamiliar with patient experiences and perceptions of screening; PCPs attend to individual-based, institutional-based, and policy-based facilitators to screening (i.e. overlooking interpersonal-based and community-based facilitators); and patients and PCPs align on the community-based barriers to screening. We developed and implemented a research-informed PCP training series. PCP trainings must be theory-informed and evidence-informed so that learners have the opportunity to become structurally competent in their aims to eliminate stigma.
DOI: 10.54111/0001/kkkk2
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4401624401