None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The aim is to promote testing for chlamydia among at-risk 16 – 25 year old Australians. A website about chlamydia will be developed in consultation with young people, and linked to an existing, evaluated health promotion website. Eligible visitors to the chlamydia website will be invited to participate in the study. 1,000 participants will be randomly allocated into one of two groups. The intervention group will be offered confidential email interaction with a nurse or doctor to discuss their needs and barriers surrounding testing for chlamydia. The control group will receive an automated email reply directing them back to the website for information. Both groups will complete a de-identified online questionnaire at baseline and 6 months. The main outcome measure will be whether chlamydia testing took place.
Interventions
Intervention: personal email interaction with doctor or nurse over 6 months. The number of emails and their content will vary according to the questions and issues raised by the participant, ie they will be tailored to the individual participant. Several attempts will be made to engage the participant in ongoing email interaction via weekly emails for one month, then monthly emails up until follow up at 6 months. The doctor/ nurse will try to form a clinical relationship with the participant via
Intervention: personal email interaction with doctor or nurse over 6 months. The number of emails and their content will vary according to the questions and issues raised by the participant, ie they will be tailored to the individual participant. Several attempts will be made to engage the participant in ongoing email interaction via weekly emails for one month, then monthly emails up until follow up at 6 months. The doctor/ nurse will try to form a clinical relationship with the participant via email and it is this relationship that is the crux of the intervention.
Sponsors
Department of General Practice, University of Sydney
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Diagnosis
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
16 Years to 25 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Has had sexual intercourse (vaginal or anal) Residing in Australia
Exclusion criteria
Never had sexual intercourse Not residing in Australia
Outcome results
None listed