Video Tool to Promote Knowledge of Syphilis as Facilitator of HIV Transmission

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00553111

Enrollment

168

Registered

2007-11-05

Start date

2006-11-30

Completion date

2007-04-30

Last updated

2007-11-05

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Conditions

Syphilis

Keywords

syphilis, video education, knowledge, black, hispanic

Brief summary

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.

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.

Interventions

OTHEReducational video

educational video

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

FACTORIAL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE (Investigator)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

MALE

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* must speak english or spanish

Exclusion criteria

* excluded if hearing or visually impaired

Design outcomes

Primary

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

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
A secondary outcome was the decision to be tested for syphilis and HIV	20 minutes

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026