Clinical Trial: Home-sampling in Partner Notification of Chlamydia

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: Home-sampling as a Tool in a Chlamydia Trachomatis Partner Notification Context. A Multi-centre Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial.

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 Summary:
Sponsor: Ostergotland County Council, Sweden

Current Primary Outcome: 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 [ Time Frame: 60 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.


Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome:

Original Secondary Outcome:

Information By: Ostergotland County Council, Sweden

Dates:
Date Received: May 9, 2012
Date Started: November 2006
Date Completion:
Last Updated: May 10, 2012
Last Verified: May 2012