Evaluation of a randomized controlled trial of HIV and sexually transmitted disease prevention in a genitourinary medicine clinic setting

Abstract

The limited effectiveness of the intervention suggests that condom promotion should continue, but that additional investment in clinic-based health promotion is unlikely to result in consequent health gain.

Systematic Review of Interventions to Prevent Spread of Sexually Transmitted Infections, Including HIV, Among Young People in Europe

“…The studies covered 7 European countries. Nine of the studies (numbers correspond to those in Table 1) were from the United Kingdom (2,3,8,11,12,14,16,17,19). Three of the studies were from Italy (4,5,7), 2 from the Netherlands (10,13), and 2 from Spain (6,15).…”

“…The other studies were from Bulgaria (1), Estonia (9), and Sweden (18). Eight of the studies were RCTs (4,5,8,10,14,16,17,19).…”

“…Ten of the 19 reviewed studies (1,4,6,8,11,12,14,(17)(18)(19) aimed to measure actual behavior change (eg, using condoms or using STI services for testing). Two studies (3,9) did not measure any changes mainly due to the study design.…”

“…teachers (4)(5)(6)9,15,19) 2. peers (1,4,9,10,13,(16)(17)(18) 3. health professionals (3,7,8,(11)(12)(13)(14) 4. others (specially trained "sessional" workers (2).…”

A randomized controlled trial to evaluate the relative efficacy of adding voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) to information dissemination in reducing HIV-related risk behaviors among Hong Kong male cross-border truck drivers

“…Between-group differences of the baseline measurements and post-intervention measurements were compared statistically. The same analytical methods have been used in many RCT studies, including some of the HIV-related RCT studies (e.g., Berkman et al, 2007;Hyman, Pavlik, Taylor, Goodrick, & Moye, 2007;James, Gillies, & Bignell, 1998;Stanton et al, 1998). Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS for Windows 14.0 and pB0.05 was taken as statistically significant.…”