Point of Care STI Testing
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Gonorrhea/chlamydia Point-of-Care Testing.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Point of Care STI Testing. Basic parameters: 16 years — 24 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Clinical and Implementation Outcomes of a Point of Care Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing Strategy to Improve HIV Prevention Service Delivery in Adolescents
Overview
The proposed research hypothesizes that point-of-care testing (POCT) for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) gonorrhea and chlamydia will be a feasible, acceptable, and appropriate implementation strategy for improving HIV testing and Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) delivery in youth, by increasing opportunities for clinician-patient counseling, decreasing loss to follow up, and allowing for same-day HIV prevention service provision. This hypothesis will be tested in a pragmatic non-randomized trial comparing clinical (HIV testing and PrEP counseling and prescription) and implementation (feasibility, acceptability, and appropriateness) outcomes between adolescents receiving POCT compared to laboratory-based testing at three clinics within a large pediatric health system.
Interventions
- Behavioral Gonorrhea/chlamydia Point-of-Care Testing
Point-of-care testing for sexually transmitted infections.
Primary outcome measures
- Rates of HIV Test Completion [Time frame: Day 1 - Measured on date of STI testing]
Secondary outcome measures (2)
- Number of participants who received PrEP counseling [Time frame: Day 1 - Same day as STI testing encounter]
- Time to STI treatment [Time frame: Time from STI diagnosis to treatment, up to 9 months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
\- Patients age 16-24 years receiving POCT or lab-based GC/CT testing
Exclusion criteria
\- Patients with known HIV or active PrEP prescriptions.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Non-randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia — Philadelphia
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06844045 · GCO 24-1934