Topic: Infectious Diseases
Conditions
Interventions
Participants will be randomly allocated, using a remote computer based randomised system, to a safer sex intervention delivered by text messaging or to a control group. The allocation will be by simpl
Sponsors
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
16 Years to 24 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Aged 16 to 24 inclusive 2. Received a positive chlamydia or gonorrhoea test result or have been diagnosed with NSU in the last 2 weeks 3. Own a personal mobile phone 4. Able to provide informed consent
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Known to be a sexual partner of someone already recruited to the trial.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Cumulative incidence of Chlamydia and gonorrhoea infection at one year assessed by NAAT (nucleic acid amplification test) tests: urine for men with pharyngeal and anal swabs for MSM (men who have sex with men) and self-taken vulvo-vaginal swab for women. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Current secondary outcome measures as of 30/10/2019: Measured at 4 weeks: Behaviours: 1. Whether participants took the (prescribed antibiotic) treatment and avoided sex for 7 days after treatment, self-reported on 4-week questionnaire 2. Whether they told the last person they had sex with before testing positive, that they needed to get treatment, self-reported on 4-week questionnaire 3. Clinic attendance by partner for treatment, identified from clinic records 4. Condom use at last sex, self-reported on 4-week questionnaire Process outcomes – scores of the theoretical constructs underlying the components of the intervention (behaviour change mediators): 1. Attitudes towards partner notification, self-reported on 4-week questionnaire 2. Self–efficacy in telling a partner about an infection, self-reported on 4-week questionnaire 3. Self–efficacy in negotiating condom use, self-reported on 4-week questionnaire 4. Correct condom use self-efficacy, self-reported on 4-week questionnaire 5. Knowledge related to STIs, self-reported on 4-week questionnaire Measured at 1 year: STIs: 1. Diagnosed with any STI after joining the trial according to self-report confirmed by postal test results and clinic records, self-reported on 1-year questionnaire Behaviours: 1. Condom use at last sex, self-reported on one year questionnaire 2. Number of sexual partners since joining the trial, self-reported on one year questionnaire 3. Sex with someone new since joining the trial, self-reported on one year questionnaire 4. Condom use at first sex with most recent new partner, self-reported on one year questionnaire 5. Self-reported sexually transmitted infection testing for self - prior to first sex with most recent new partner, self-reported on 1-year questionnaire 6. Sexually transmitted infection testing for self - prior to first sex with most recent new partner, confirmed according to clinic record that testing occurred 7. Participant’s report as to whether their most recent new partne | — |
Countries
England, United Kingdom
Contacts
Public ContactCaroline Free
Outcome results
None listed