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Let’s K-Talk: A Storytelling Intervention Leveraging Chatbot Technology to Prevent HPV and HPV Associated Cancers for Ethnic Koreans Living in the U.S.

Award Number: K23NR020342
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NURSING RESEARCH
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: TRAINING/TRAINEESHIP
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/23/2022
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 07/31/2026

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Let’s K-Talk: A Storytelling Intervention Leveraging Chatbot Technology to Prevent HPV and HPV Associated Cancers for Ethnic Koreans Living in the U.S. - PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The primary goal of this K23 award is to provide Dr. Minjin Kim with the structured advanced research training, protected time, and mentoring necessary for improving health disparities, health promotion, disease prevention, and innovation using technology to improve health and to reach underserved, under-resourced populations. Candidate: Dr. Kim is a transcultural nurse scientist dedicated to health disparities research using a narrative or “storytelling” approach to capture the voices of a diverse range of people and communities. Her long-term goal is to design and implement sustainable disease prevention programs leveraging technologies that are theory- based, culturally inclusive, and personally relevant to reduce health disparities and promote health equity, improve preventive health behaviors and outcomes, and reach underserved, high-need populations. Dr. Kim’s short-term goal is to employ storytelling interventions leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots that facilitate timely, effective, and sustained motivation for vaccination to prevent HPV-related infections and cancers. Research: Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is a sexually transmitted infection with 3 out of 4 new infections occurring in individuals aged 15 to 24. Although HPV vaccine is safe and effective at preventing HPV-related infections and cancers, our preliminary study has shown that only 1 in 5 English-speaking, college-educated Korean American women aged 18 to 26 in the Northeast U.S. had received the HPV vaccine (19%). Dr. Kim’s storytelling video-based intervention leveraging AI chatbot technology (K-Talk) delivers a user-centered experience to promote HPV vaccination behavior among Korean Americans aged 18 to 26. The study aims to 1) adapt and refine the previously developed K-Talk and 2) conduct a pilot Multiphase Optimization Strategy-based trial to assess feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of K-Talk. The proposed study assesses the primary outcome (HPV vaccine uptake) by obtaining photo documentation of an HPV vaccination card. This study has a substantial opportunity to reach underserved, hard-to-reach Korean Americans and other minorities. K-Talk is a promising intervention to promote HPV vaccination as a means of cancer prevention. Mentoring/Training: With the expertise of the transdisciplinary mentoring team and consultants from inside and outside of Cincinnati, Dr. Kim will achieve her appointed research and career goals in five domains to advance her program of research through this award. These domains are: designing intervention studies using state-of- the-art research design, mHealth and chatbot-based technologies to improve health communication and dissemination of the interventions, conducting and managing clinical trials and pragmatic trials, advanced statistical methods for clinical trials data as well as communication and leadership skills. The proposed research and training will enable Dr. Kim to independently conduct a future pragmatic trial (R01) that evaluates efficacy of the K-Talk intervention piloted in this proposal.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2026 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2026	2024	CINCINNATI UNIV OF	2600 CLIFTON AVE	CINCINNATI	OH	45220	HAMILTON	USA	Nursing Research	000	3	9/16/2026	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2025	2024	CINCINNATI UNIV OF	2600 CLIFTON AVE	CINCINNATI	OH	45220	HAMILTON	USA	Nursing Research	000	3	9/15/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $162,664 )
2024	2024	CINCINNATI UNIV OF	2600 CLIFTON AVE	CINCINNATI	OH	45220	HAMILTON	USA	Nursing Research	000	3	7/9/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$162,664
														Subtotal = $162,664

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $163,150 )
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI	2600 CLIFTON AVE	CINCINNATI	OH	45220	HAMILTON	USA	Nursing Research	001	2	7/28/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$163,150
2023	2022	UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI	2600 CLIFTON AVE	CINCINNATI	OH	45220	HAMILTON	USA	Nursing Research	000	1	11/3/2022	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $163,150

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $163,852 )
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI	2600 CLIFTON AVE	CINCINNATI	OH	45220	HAMILTON	USA	Nursing Research	000	1	9/23/2022	NEW	$163,852
														Subtotal = $163,852

Grand Total All Awards = $489,666

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Let’s K-Talk: A Storytelling Intervention Leveraging Chatbot Technology to Prevent HPV and HPV Associated Cancers for Ethnic Koreans Living in the U.S.

Award Number: K23NR020342

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NURSING RESEARCH

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: TRAINING/TRAINEESHIP

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/23/2022

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 07/31/2026

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