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Home-sampling in Partner Notification of Chlamydia

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Chlamydia
Interventions
Behavioral: Contact tracing mode test at clinic
Behavioral: Self-sampling at home - Sent Test Kit
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
Inclusion Criteria
  • Sexual Partners to chlamydia infected index patients accepting to participate in the study.
Exclusion Criteria

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
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Contact tracing mode test at clinicContact tracing mode test at clinicConventional mode of contact tracing where the partners were asked by either the index patient or demanded by the counsellor to attend a clinic for C. trachomatis testing. The date of testing for chlamydia of the study subject i e a sexual partner to a chlamydia infected index patient was noted. Those partners being C trachomatis positive were referred to the STD-clinic for contact tracing and following the same study arm a the index patient.
Self-sampling at homeSelf-sampling at home - Sent Test KitThe intervention: Self-sampling of sexual partners to infected index patient for chlamydia by urine test or vaginal sampling at home. They sent the kit tube to a microbiological laboratorium for analysis. The test kit was sent by post by the counsellor at the STD-clinic or distributed via the index patient. The partner in this arm was informed about the test result from the STD-clinic and those tested C trachomatis positive were given an appointment for treating and contact tracing as soon as possible. Their partners were not randomised but following the same mode. The days from the counselling conversation with the index patient to the date of testing was measured and compared with partners tested following arm 1 mode.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
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 partners60 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
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

R&D department of Local Health Care

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Linköping, Sweden

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