Education Program to Promote Female Condom Use
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00062634 |
Recruitment Status
: Unknown
Verified October 2004 by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted
: June 12, 2003
Last Update Posted
: June 24, 2005
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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HIV Infections | Behavioral: Female condom skills training | Not Applicable |
AIDS incidence among women has grown at alarming rates since 1985. Heterosexual contact is now the greatest risk for HIV infection in women. Women in the United States urgently need more options to protect themselves against HIV. Nonetheless, limited prevention efforts have targeted women. The female condom is a potentially important option for HIV prevention in women. However, little research has been conducted to identify effective approaches to promote the female condom as the only female-controlled barrier method available to date. This study will develop a theoretically and empirically based intervention to increase female condom use among ethnically diverse women who engage in multiple sexual partnerships.
The proposed female condom skills training intervention applies social cognitive theory. It also incorporates our extensive previous research that examined female condom acceptability and identified the attitudinal, interpersonal, and sociocultural factors affecting female condom use. The intervention consists of four sessions: 1) individual safer sex education and condom use skills training; 2) group discussion of barriers to female condom use; 3) group condom negotiation skills training; and 4) individual condom use counseling. The efficacy of the intervention will be assessed by comparing it to a control condition intervention that focuses on women's general health issues unrelated to HIV/AIDS. The control condition intervention has four sessions: 1) individual health education; 2) group discussion of women's health problems and related risk behaviors; 3) group discussion of healthy living; and 4) individual health risk reduction counseling.
This study will use a randomized clinical trial design. Study participants will be randomly assigned to one of two conditions: female condom skills training or women's general health promotion. All participants will be interviewed at study entry, 3 months, and 6 months. Attitudinal, psychosexual, and behavioral data will be collected to evaluate the intervention.
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Enrollment : | 400 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | Single |
Primary Purpose: | Educational/Counseling/Training |
Official Title: | Female Condom Intervention Trial |
Study Start Date : | June 2003 |
Study Completion Date : | August 2005 |

- percent of sex acts protected by female condoms
- percent of sex acts protected by male or female condoms

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 39 Years (Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria
- African American, Asian American, Latina, or White
- Two or more male sexual partners in the year prior to study entry
- English speaking
Exclusion Criteria
- Commercial sex workers
- Planning to move within 6 months of study entry
- Allergic to polyurethane, latex, or lubricants

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00062634
Contact: Wendy Hussey, MPH | 415-597-9340 | whussey@psg.ucsf.edu |
United States, California | |
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco | Recruiting |
San Francisco, California, United States, 94105 | |
Contact: Wendy Hussey, MPH 415-597-9340 whussey@psg.ucsf.edu | |
Contact: Kyung-Hee Choi, PhD, MPH 415-597-9281 khchoi@psg.ucsf.edu | |
Principal Investigator: Kyung-Hee Choi, PhD, MPH |
Principal Investigator: | Kyung-Hee Choi, PhD, MPH | University of California, San Francisco |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00062634 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
HD39118 |
First Posted: | June 12, 2003 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | June 24, 2005 |
Last Verified: | October 2004 |
Keywords provided by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD):
Female condom use Male condom use AIDS education AIDS prevention HIV Seronegativity |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections Lentivirus Infections Retroviridae Infections RNA Virus Infections Virus Diseases |
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral Sexually Transmitted Diseases Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes Immune System Diseases |