Video Tool to Promote Knowledge of Syphilis as Facilitator of HIV Transmission - Full Text View

Purpose

During the winter of 2007, the Syphilis Advisory Group and Bureau of STD Control of the NYC Department of Health funded the Emergency Department of Jacobi Medical Center to further evaluate the effectiveness of the Syphilis and Men video in additional settings where men access STD related information and testing and where high-risk groups, such as MSM, frequent. The video was evaluated for promoting knowledge of syphilis, especially as facilitator of HIV transmission, and in encouraging concurrent testing (syphilis and HIV) among men recruited from a community-based organization, an ambulatory care setting, and a dance club.

Condition	Intervention
Syphilis	Other: educational video


Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment Masking: Single Blind (Investigator) Primary Purpose: Prevention
Official Title:	Video Tool to Promote Knowledge of Syphilis as Facilitator of HIV Transmission

Resource links provided by NLM:

MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDS Syphilis

Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center resources: Treponema Infection

U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by Jacobi Medical Center:

Primary Outcome Measures:

The primary outcome was the score on a 10-question measure designed to assess knowledge attained from the syphilis educational video [ Time Frame: 20 minutes ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:

A secondary outcome was the decision to be tested for syphilis and HIV [ Time Frame: 20 minutes ]


Enrollment:	168
Study Start Date:	November 2006
Study Completion Date:	April 2007

Arms	Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 1 pre survey, intervention, post test survey	Other: educational video educational video
No Intervention: 2 pre test survey and post test survey
Experimental: 3 video intervention and post test survey	Other: educational video educational video
No Intervention: 4 post test survey

Detailed Description:

The Solomon-four group design was applied to assess the effectiveness of the video in raising syphilis knowledge among participants, while controlling for the influence of the pre-test knowledge survey in skewing post-knowledge survey scores. Participants in Group 1 received a pre-test survey, the video intervention, and the post-test survey; Group 2 received the pre-test and post-test surveys; Group 3 received the video intervention and post-test survey; and Group 4 received the post-test survey only. A computer-generated randomization list was used to assign participants to one of the four groups.

Eligibility


Genders Eligible for Study:	Male
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	Yes

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

must speak english or spanish

Exclusion Criteria:

excluded if hearing or visually impaired

Contacts and Locations

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00553111

Locations


United States, New York
Gay Men of African Descent
Manhattan, New York, United States, 10035
New York University Ambulatory Care Pavilion
Manhattan, New York, United States, 10010

Sponsors and Collaborators

Jacobi Medical Center

Investigators


Principal Investigator:	Chinazo Cunningham, MD	Montefiore Medical Center
Principal Investigator:	John Sanchez, MD, MPH	Montefiore Medical Center

More Information

No publications provided


ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00553111 History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers:	06-09390
Study First Received:	November 2, 2007
Last Updated:	November 2, 2007
Health Authority:	United States: Institutional Review Board

Keywords provided by Jacobi Medical Center:


syphilis video education knowledge black hispanic

Additional relevant MeSH terms:


Syphilis Bacterial Infections Genital Diseases, Female Genital Diseases, Male Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections	Infection Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Bacterial Spirochaetales Infections Treponemal Infections

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 03, 2015