People Living With HIV (PLWH), Oral and Oropharyngeal Cancer, and Health Equity: A Qualitative Study

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Other
Study Type: Observational
SUMMARY

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.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Healthy Volunteers: f
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• Participants must be 18-years old or older.

• Participants must be individuals living with HIV

• Ability to speak and understand English

• Identify as one or more racial/ethnic minority groups or sexual and gender minority groups

• All genders and members of all races and ethnic groups are eligible for this study.

Locations
United States
California
University of California, San Francisco
RECRUITING
San Francisco
Contact Information
Primary
William Juarez
William.Juarez@ucsf.edu
(415) 437-7439
Time Frame
Start Date: 2025-02-13
Estimated Completion Date: 2029-11-30
Participants
Target number of participants: 144
Treatments
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).
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: University of California, San Francisco
Collaborators: National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)

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