Brief Intervention and/or Distribution of Free Condoms for Travelers

Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sexually Transmitted Infections

Treatments: Device: Free condoms; Behavioral: Structured intervention for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STI).

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01056536

MST

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this study is to assess the impact of a structured intervention and/or free distribution of condoms during the pre-travel consultation on sexual risk behavior of young persons traveling alone.

Full description

All persons aged 18 - 44 years planning to travel alone and attending the travel clinic of the Medical Outpatient Clinic in Lausanne will be asked to participate. The subjects will be randomized into three groups: 1. no intervention, 2. free condoms without further explanations, 3. a structured intervention of 5 minutes on STI risk reduction plus free condoms. The structured interventions will include information about the number of travelers engaging in new sexual relationships, the different types of STI and their prevalence in different countries and population groups. The subjects will complete a pre-travel questionnaire prior to the medical consultation. A post-travel questionnaire will be sent to them 10 days after their trip. The questionnaires will include questions on demographic characteristics, sexual habits, alcohol/tobacco/marijuana consumption and sexual relationships during the trip.

Enrollment: 1,681 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 44 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age: 18 - 44 years
• Travelling without the regular partner

Exclusion criteria

• Refusal of patient to participate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,681 participants in 3 patient groups

Structured intervention + free condoms

Experimental group

Description:

The subjects will receive a structured intervention on STI's and will be offered free condoms

Treatment:

Behavioral: Structured intervention for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STI).

Device: Free condoms

Free condoms

Active Comparator group

Description:

Subjects will be offered free condoms at the end of the pre-travel consultation

Treatment:

Device: Free condoms

No intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

The topic of STI's will not be actively discussed during the pretravel consultation