Effect of a brief video intervention on incident infection among patients attending sexually transmitted disease clinics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention remains a public health priority. Simple, practical interventions to reduce STD incidence that can be easily and inexpensively administered in high-volume clinical settings are needed. We evaluated whether a brief video, which contained STD prevention messages targeted to all patients in the waiting room, reduced acquisition of new infections after that clinic visit.

Methods and findings

In a controlled trial among patients attending three publicly funded STD clinics (one in each of three US cities) from December 2003 to August 2005, all patients (n = 38,635) were systematically assigned to either a theory-based 23-min video depicting couples overcoming barriers to safer sexual behaviors, or the standard waiting room e

SUBMITTER: Warner L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2504047 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature