Home-sampling in Partner Notification of Chlamydia
- Conditions
- Chlamydia
- Registration Number
- NCT01596946
- Lead Sponsor
- Ostergotland County Council, Sweden
- Brief Summary
Though partner notification is mandatory to perform of Chlamydia trachomatis infected individuals in Sweden, there was a 10-15% annually increase of reported cases between 1997 and 2007 indicating that partner notification may not be effective in preventing transmission. The investigators wanted to determine whether there was any difference in time between home-sampling and clinical testing as a tool of partner notification measured from eliciting of partners to date of testing.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 633
- Sexual Partners to chlamydia infected index patients accepting to participate in the study.
Index patients not living in Sweden or not speaking Swedish.
- MSM.
- Sexual partners living in another county or abroad.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Difference in time, measured as days from the meeting between the index patient and the counsellor (i.e. the eliciting of sexually partners) until the date of C. trachomatis testing of partners 60 days or more were defined as an exclusion criterion Difference in time, measured as days from the meeting between the index patient and the counsellor (i.e. the eliciting of sexually partners) until the date of C. trachomatis testing of partners, if sexual partners had attended a clinic for testing or had the opportunity of home-sampling.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
R&D department of Local Health Care
🇸🇪Linköping, Sweden
R&D department of Local Health Care🇸🇪Linköping, Sweden