Syphilis Video Tool to Promote Knowledge and Testing in the ED

Jacobi Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Syphilis

Treatments: Other: 'educational video'

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00552539

06431

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this study is to determine whether the "Syphilis and Men" educational video can be a useful tool to increase syphilis knowledge and testing among English and Spanish-speaking urgent care and emergency department patients, regardless of various self-reported characteristics that increase their risk for syphilis infection.

Full description

A randomized four-group intervention-control Solomon design was implemented with Group 1 participants receiving a pre-test survey, the educational video intervention, and a post-test survey; Group 2 the pre-test and post-test surveys; Group 3 the video intervention and a post-test survey; and Group 4 the post-test survey. This design was selected to assess the effect of the video in increasing syphilis knowledge while controlling for the influence of the pre-test instrument in potentially sensitizing participants to key facts. A computer-generated randomization list was created and used to assign patients to groups.

Enrollment: 220 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients aged 18-55 years of age were eligible only if they spoke English or Spanish.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients were excluded if clinically unstable, unarousable, hearing impaired or visually impaired despite corrected lens.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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220 participants in 4 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Description:

pre test survey, educational video, post test survey

Treatment:

Other: 'educational video'

2

No Intervention group

Description:

no intervention

3

Experimental group

Description:

educational video and post test survey

Treatment:

Other: 'educational video'

4

No Intervention group

Description:

post test survey