Video Tool to Promote Knowledge of Syphilis as Facilitator of HIV Transmission

Syphilis Clinical Trial

Official title:

Video Tool to Promote Knowledge of Syphilis as Facilitator of HIV Transmission

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00553111
• Other study ID #: 06-09390
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 2, 2007
• Last updated: November 2, 2007
• Start date: November 2006
• Est. completion date: April 2007

Study information

• Verified date: November 2007
• Source: Jacobi Medical Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

During the winter of 2007, the Syphilis Advisory Group and Bureau of STD Control of the NYC Department of Health funded the Emergency Department of Jacobi Medical Center to further evaluate the effectiveness of the Syphilis and Men video in additional settings where men access STD related information and testing and where high-risk groups, such as MSM, frequent. The video was evaluated for promoting knowledge of syphilis, especially as facilitator of HIV transmission, and in encouraging concurrent testing (syphilis and HIV) among men recruited from a community-based organization, an ambulatory care setting, and a dance club.

Description:

The Solomon-four group design was applied to assess the effectiveness of the video in raising syphilis knowledge among participants, while controlling for the influence of the pre-test knowledge survey in skewing post-knowledge survey scores. Participants in Group 1 received a pre-test survey, the video intervention, and the post-test survey; Group 2 received the pre-test and post-test surveys; Group 3 received the video intervention and post-test survey; and Group 4 received the post-test survey only. A computer-generated randomization list was used to assign participants to one of the four groups.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 168
• Est. completion date: April 2007
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Male
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• must speak english or spanish

Exclusion Criteria:

• excluded if hearing or visually impaired

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Investigator), Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Syphilis

Intervention

Other:
• educational video
educational video

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Gay Men of African Descent	Manhattan	New York
United States	New York University Ambulatory Care Pavilion	Manhattan	New York

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Jacobi Medical Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	The primary outcome was the score on a 10-question measure designed to assess knowledge attained from the syphilis educational video		20 minutes
Secondary	A secondary outcome was the decision to be tested for syphilis and HIV		20 minutes