Optimizing Strategies to Improve STD Partner Services

Chlamydia Trachomatis Clinical Trial

Official title: Optimizing Strategies to Improve STD Partner Services

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

This research tests the effectiveness of a social cognitive intervention (with option of patient-delivered medication) geared toward increasing patient referral of partners.

Clinical Trial Description

This is a four-year study involving longitudinal data collection for 800 men and women recruited from four clinics in Brooklyn, NY. Participants were eligible for enrollment at any of the study sites if diagnosed as having C trachomatis or N gonorrhoeae genital infection or if they have an STD syndrome likely to be related to either of these pathogens (i.e., males with NGU). Consenting patients were randomly assigned to receive either standard-of-care patient referral for partner notification (N = 350), a social-cognitive intervention geared toward increasing patient referral (N = 350), or the social-cognitive intervention with an option of patient-delivered medication (N = 100). Evaluation activities include an interviewer administered measure provided at baseline, one month, and six months, a screen for N gonorrhoeae and C trachomatis using urine-based ligase chain reaction screening (Abbott LCx) at baseline and six months, and medical chart abstraction at one and six months. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Educational/Counseling/Training

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chlamydia Trachomatis
• Neisseria Gonorrhoeae

• NCT number: NCT00207454
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• Start date: June 2001
• Completion date: August 2005