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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Syphilis
• Interventions: Other: educational video

• Registration Number: NCT00553111
• Lead Sponsor: Jacobi Medical Center

Brief 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.

Detailed 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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2006-11
• Study Completion: 2007-04
• Status Verified: 2007-11
• Study First Submitted: 2007-11-02
• Study First Submitted QC: 2007-11-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2007-11-02
• Study First Posted: 2007-11-04
• Last Update Posted: 2007-11-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Male
• Target Recruitment: 168

Inclusion Criteria

• must speak english or spanish

Exclusion Criteria

• excluded if hearing or visually impaired

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: FACTORIAL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
1	educational video	pre survey, intervention, post test survey
3	educational video	video intervention and post test survey

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The primary outcome was the score on a 10-question measure designed to assess knowledge attained from the syphilis educational video	20 minutes

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
A secondary outcome was the decision to be tested for syphilis and HIV	20 minutes

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

New York University Ambulatory Care Pavilion; 🇺🇸 Manhattan, New York, United States

Gay Men of African Descent; 🇺🇸 Manhattan, New York, United States