Randomized Trial of Home Versus Clinic-Based STD Testing

United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Gonorrhea; Chlamydia

Treatments: Behavioral: Home Screening; Behavioral: Clinic Screening

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: NIH

Identifiers

NCT01654991

201105031

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study randomizes St. Louis men to home-based STD screening or clinic-based STD screening. Home-based screening will be completed through the mail and clinic-based screening in a local clinical setting. We hypothesize that men randomized to home-based screening will be more likely to complete screening.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Men
• Ages 18-45
• Residing in St. Louis City or County
• English-speaking

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

Clinic-Based Testing

Active Comparator group

Description:

Clinic-based STD screening using self-obtained urine samples in a local university clinical setting.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Clinic Screening

Home-Based Testing

Experimental group

Description:

Home-based STD screening using self-obtained urine samples and study paid postal return of samples.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Home Screening