Home-sampling in Partner Notification of Chlamydia

Ostergotland County Council, Sweden

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chlamydia

Treatments: Behavioral: Contact tracing mode test at clinic; Behavioral: Self-sampling at home - Sent Test Kit

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01596946

Forss8743, LiO 201 261

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 633 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

633 participants in 2 patient groups

Contact tracing mode test at clinic

Active Comparator group

Description:

Conventional 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.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Contact tracing mode test at clinic

Self-sampling at home

Experimental group

Description:

The 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.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-sampling at home - Sent Test Kit