Monitoring STI prevalence using telephone surveys and mailed urine specimens: a pilot test.
Sex Transm Infect
; 81(3): 236-8, 2005 Jun.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
This pilot test assessed the feasibility of a cost effective population based approach to STI monitoring using automated telephone interviews, urine specimen collection kits sent out and returned by US Postal Service mail, and monetary incentives to motivate participation.METHODS:
100 residents of Baltimore, MD, USA, completed an automated telephone survey and agreed to mail in a urine specimen to be tested for chlamydia and gonorrhoea. Participants were paid dollar 10 for completing the survey and dollar 40 for mailing the specimen.RESULTS:
86% of survey participants mailed in a urine specimen for testing.CONCLUSIONS:
Automated telephone surveys linked with testing of mailed-in urine specimens may be a feasible lower cost (relative to household surveys) method of estimating infection prevalences in a population.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Infecções por Chlamydia
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Gonorreia
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2005
Tipo de documento:
Article