A Telehealth Intervention to Increase Patient Preparedness for Surgery in Latinas

Description

The purpose of this project is to understand surgical preparedness in Latinas undergoing urogynecologic surgery and to develop TIPPS-Latina a refined version of our telehealth intervention for Latinas undergoing urogynecologic surgery using HCD and D&I methods. The goal of the first aim is to develop a participatory design approach and understand surgical preparedness in Latinas undergoing urogynecologic surgery. This cross-sectional study will run in parallel to the other aims. The participatory action framework will guide Aims 1-3. The goals of Aim 2 and Aim 3 are develop and test TIPPS-Latina using the Discover, Design/Build, and Test (DDBT) framework, which is a HCD method to generate evidence-based interventions and their implementations9. During the Discover phase investigators will identify preferences for refinement of TIPPS-Latina and its contextual deployment using mixed methods. During the Design/Build phase investigators will use an iterative process to generate, modify, and adapt our intervention. During the Test phase investigators will conduct pilot testing of TIPPS-Latina using a mixed methods approach that determines feasibility and implementation outcomes. Throughout our study, surgical preparedness will be measured using the Surgical Preparedness Assessment (SPA), a validated survey for measuring preparedness in women undergoing urogynecologic surgery that was developed by our group