None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
This study evaluates MiM Primary Care, an online training programme designed to help GPs, nurses, pharmacists, and rural generalists better engage men in their care. Men are less likely to seek help early for health problems, and this training aims to build practitioners' knowledge, confidence, and skills in recognising and responding to men's health needs. We expect that completing the training will improve practitioners' knowledge and confidence in engaging male patients, measured using a purpose-built survey. All participating practitioners complete the training and are surveyed before training, immediately after, and again 12 weeks later, with no separate comparison group. The study will also examine whether the training is practical, acceptable, and likely to be adopted across different primary care settings.
Interventions
Men in Mind (MiM) Primary Care is a self-paced online training programme for primary care practitioners (GPs, pharmacists, nurses, and rural generalists). The programme comprises three parts, totalling approximately 2.5 hours:
Part 1, Reframing Masculinity: builds foundational knowledge of gender socialisation and how it shapes men's health behaviours and healthcare engagement.
Part 2, Meet Him Where He's At: introduces practical consultation skills through the MALE framework for engaging male
Men in Mind (MiM) Primary Care is a self-paced online training programme for primary care practitioners (GPs, pharmacists, nurses, and rural generalists). The programme comprises three parts, totalling approximately 2.5 hours: Part 1, Reframing Masculinity: builds foundational knowledge of gender socialisation and how it shapes men's health behaviours and healthcare engagement. Part 2, Meet Him Where He's At: introduces practical consultation skills through the MALE framework for engaging male patients. Part 3, Hiding in Plain Sight: focuses on recognising and responding to male presentations of mental health difficulties, using case-based learning. The training is delivered through the Skilljar learning management system and combines short instructional videos, filmed consultation demonstrations, written content, case-based vignettes, interactive reflective activities, and knowledge-check questions within each part. Practitioners complete the training individually at their own pace over approximately 2.5 hours in total. Adherence is assessed objectively through the learning management system, which records module-level progress, completion of each of the three parts, and time on task for each participant. Completion of the final module triggers the post-training (T2) outcome survey automatically. Participants who do not complete all three parts are identified from platform records and handled as specified in the Statistical Analysis Plan.
Sponsors
Movember Foundation
Study design
Allocation
Non-randomised trial
Intervention model
Single group
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Qualified and registered GPs, practice nurses, pharmacists, or rural generalists currently practising in Australia at the time of registration, who provide informed consent. Practitioners who participated in prototype testing of an earlier version of MiM Primary Care are excluded.
Exclusion criteria
Practitioners who participated in prototype testing of an earlier version of MiM Primary Care. These individuals are identified via a screening question at registration, by name, or by Skilljar student ID where records from prototype testing can be linked to current registration, and are removed from both the effectiveness analysis and the validation dataset. Any student practitioners who are under 18 years of age will be excluded via a screening question at registration.
Outcome results
None listed