Partner Notification Intervention for STD Clinics. - Full Text View

Sponsored by:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Information provided by:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00207571

Purpose

To help public health professionals (DIS) in interviews of patients infected with STD for the names of their sex partners, this project used a computer-based partner elicitation program before the actual DIS interview. The main outcome was the mean number of partners named by those who had the intervention versus those those who did not.

Condition	Intervention	Phase
Contact Tracing	Behavioral: Computer	Phase I Phase II

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Prevention, Randomized, Single Blind, Active Control, Parallel Assignment, Safety/Efficacy Study
Official Title:	Computer-Assisted STD Partner Notification

Further study details as provided by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:

Primary Outcome Measures:

1. Numbers of partner named.
2. Amount and quality of identifying information.

Secondary Outcome Measures:

1. Willingness to name partners.

Estimated Enrollment:	150
Study Start Date:	April 2001
Estimated Study Completion Date:	April 2005

Detailed Description:

The primary goal of this project is to develop and evaluate an intervention that will increase the number of people who, having been exposed to a sexual partner with chlamydia, gonorrhea or syphilis, (a) are notified and (b) receive evaluation and treatment. The intervention program will be presented entirely by an automated multimedia computer system with touch screen interface. The intervention will be tailored to user, based on demographic and recent sexual history factors. The intervention is designed to (a) motivate and prompt STD clinic clients to recall and identify sexual partners, (b) teach clinic clients a set of social skills for minimizing negative reactions while informing partners that they may be infected with an STD; (c) increase client’s self-efficacy relative to disclosing partners names and informing them of their STD exposure, and (d) provide clients with tools for motivating their partners to seek treatment.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

18 or older AND
Anglo, Hispanic, or Black AND
STD diagnosis positive

Exclusion Criteria:

Non-English speaker

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00207571

Locations

United States, Oregon
Oregon Research Institute
Eugene, Oregon, United States, 97403

Sponsors and Collaborators

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Investigators

Principal Investigator:	Matthew Hogben, PhD	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Principal Investigator:	Christy Sherman, PhD	Oregon Research Institute

More Information

No publications provided

Study ID Numbers:	CDC-NCHSTP-3590, R30/CCR 019151
Study First Received:	September 13, 2005
Last Updated:	September 13, 2005
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00207571 History of Changes
Health Authority:	United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:

computer
video
partner notification

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 07, 2009