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. 2010 Jun 2;32(1):121–136. doi: 10.1093/epirev/mxq010

Table 2.

Characteristics of 74 Randomized Controlled Trials Evaluating 75 STI Prevention Interventions

First Author, Year (Reference No.) Follow-up Rate, %a Adherence, %b Decreased Risk-taking Behavior During the Studyc Accounting by Analysis for Differential Person-Time or Testing Frequency Effect on STI Riskd
Intervention Control Intervention Control
Behavioral Interventions
Boyer, 1997 (11) 72 48 NR Yes Yes No No effect
Branson, 1998 (12) 72 47e NR Yes Yes No No effect
NIMH Multisite HIV Prevention Trial Group, 1998 (13) 70 63f NR Yes Yes NA No effect
Kamb, 1998 (14) and Gottlieb, 2004 (15) 81 85 85 Yes Yes Yes Positive
Metcalf, 2005 (16) 69 68 73 Transient NR NR No effect
Metcalf, 2005 (17) 87 99 69 Transient NR Yes Adverse
Shain, 1999 (18) and 2002 (19) 89 75 NR Yes Yes No Positive
Shain, 2004 (20) >90 86g NR NR NR Yes Positive
VCT Efficacy Study Group, 2000 (21) 73 NR NR Yes Yes NA No effect
Hobfoll, 2002 (22) 77 NR NR Yes Yes NA Positive
Baker, 2003 (23) 73 NR NR Yes Yes No No effect
Kamali, 2003 (24) >70 NR NR Yes Yes Yes Positive
DiClemente, 2004 (25) 90 95 94 Yes Yes Yes Positive
Wingood, 2004 (26) 93 95 98 Yes Yes Yes Positive
Downs, 2004 (27) 86 NR NR Yes Yes NA No effect
Artz, 2005 (28) 84 NR 100 Yes Yes Yes No effect
Boyer, 2005 (29) 38 85 86 NR NR Yes Positive
Feldblum, 2005 (30) 90 NR NR Yes Yes NA Positive
Jemmott, 2005 (32) 82 100 100 Yes No NA Positive
Jemmott, 2007 (33) 85 100 100 Yes Yes Yes Positive
Jewkes, 2008 (34) 80 No No Yes Positive
    Men 61h 68h
    Women 59h 64h
Patterson, 2008 (35) 82 100 100 Yes Yes NA Positive
Peipert, 2008 (36) 93 NR 100 NR NR Yes Positive
Warner, 2008 (37) NA 76i 100i NR NR Yes Positive
Crosby, 2009 (38) 100 100 100 Yes Yes No Positive
Grimley, 2009 (39) 66 100 100 Yes Yes NA Positive
Marion, 2009 (40) 53 48 58 Yes Yes Yes Positive
Physical Barrier Methods
Fontanet, 1998 (41) 92 NR NR Yes No effect
    Female condoms 12j
    Male or female condoms 97j 98j
Feldblum, 2001 (42) 91 Yes Yes NA No effect
    Female condoms 7k
    Male condoms 22k 24k
Steiner, 2006 (43) 86 56l 54l Yes Yes Yes No effect
Ramjee, 2008 (44) and Sawaya, 2008 (45) 98 NR NR Yes No effect
    Diaphragm/gel 51m
    Male condoms 77m 87m
Vaginal Microbicides
Cutler, 1977 (46) 43 NR NR NR NR Yes No effect
Rendon, 1980 (47) 56 NR NR NR NR Yes No effect
Rosenberg, 1987 (48) NR NR NR NR NR Yes Positive
Louv, 1988 (49) 78 NR NR NR NR Yes Positive
Niruthisard, 1992 (50) 76 47n 48n NR NR Yes No effect
Kreiss, 1992 (51) 84 81o 90o Yes Yes Yes Positive
Roddy, 1998 (52) 91 87p 84p Yes Yes Yes No effect
Richardson, 2001 (53) 94 75o 80o NR NR Yes Adverse
Roddy, 2002 (54) 99 76p NA No No Yes Adverse
Van Damme, 2002 (55) 86 82p 82p NR NR Yes No effect
Van Damme, 2008 (56) 98 87p 87p NR NR Yes No effect
Halpern, 2008 (57) 70 76q 80q Yes Yes Yes No effect
Male Circumcision
Mattson, 2008 (58) and Mehta, 2009 (59) 95 NA NA Yes Yes Yes No effect
Sobngwi-Tambekou, 2009 (60) and Auvert, 2009 (61) NR NA NA NR NR NA Positive
Tobian, 2009 (62) 92 NA NA No No Yes Positive
Gray, 2009 (63) 95 NA NA Yes Yes NA Positive
Partner Services
Lyng, 1981 (64) 89 NR NR NR NR NA Positive
Schillinger, 2003 (65) 81 NR NR No No effect
    Patients with 1 partner 82r 75r
    Patients with >1 partner 47r 25r
Golden, 2005 (66) 68 61s 49s NR NR NA Positive
Kissinger, 2005 (67) 30 70t 49t NR NR NA Positive
Kissinger, 2006 (68) 81 82t 88t NR NR NA No effect
Cameron, 2009 (69) 65 32u 34u NR NR Yes No effect
Wilson, 2009 (70) 86 NR NR Yes Yes NA Positive
Treatment
Harrison, 1979 (71) 75 100 100 NR NR NA Positive
Wawer, 1999 (72) 77 >90v >90v Yes Yes NA Positive
Kaul, 2004 (73) 89 92w 92w Yes Yes Yes Positive
McClelland, 2008 (74) 98 92x 92x NR NR Yes No effect
Schwebke, 2007 (75) 85 NR NR NR NR Yes Positive
Corey, 2004 (76) 78 70y 70y NR NR Yes Positive
Mayaud 1997 (78) 71 NR NR No No NA Positive
Kamali, 2003 (24) >70 NR NR Yes Yes Yes Positive
Vaccines and Passive Immunization
Szmuness, 1981 (80) >85 95 92 NR NR Yes Positive
Francis, 1982 (81) >84 87 84 NR NR Yes Positive
Coutinho, 1983 (82) 96 97 98 NR NR Yes Positive
Piazza, 1997 (83) 98 100 100 NR NR Yes Positive
Corey, 1999 (84) NR 76 78 Yes Yes Yes No effect
Stanberry, 2002 (85) >81 91 91 NR NR Yes No effect
Koutsky, 2002 (86) 81 NR NR NR NR Yes Positive
Harper, 2006 (88) 85 93 93 NR NR Yes Positive
Paavonen, 2009 (91) >90 92 92 NR NR Yes Positive
Villa, 2006 (93) 98 92 95 NR NR Yes Positive
Munoz, 2009 (100) >96 97 97 NR NR Yes Positive
Wheeler, 2009 (101) 97 97 97 NR NR Yes Positive
Multicomponent Interventions
Ross, 2007 (103) 73 NR NR Yes NR NA Adverse

Abbreviations: HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; HPV, human papillomavirus; NA, not applicable; NIMH, National Institute of Mental Health; NR, not reported; PDPT, patient-delivered partner therapy; STI, sexually transmitted infection; VCT, Voluntary HIV-1 Counselling and Testing.

a

The “follow-up rate” refers to the proportion of enrolled subjects included in the analysis of effect, except for 2 studies that included all randomized subjects in the analysis of effect, irrespective of attendance at study visits (16, 17), and 1 study that evaluated gonorrhea and chlamydia among 98% of randomized subjects, while new-type HPV was evaluated among 75% of subjects from Zimbabwe (45).

b

For behavioral interventions, “adherence” refers to attendance at all intervention sessions, unless otherwise noted. For vaccine studies, “adherence” refers to receiving all required doses, unless otherwise noted.

c

Compared with behaviors reported at baseline. The behaviors assessed included reports of the following: not being abstinent, having unprotected intercourse (anal or vaginal), inconsistent condom use or no condom use at last sex, greater condom failure rates, greater number of partners in an interval, nonmonogamy, and douching after sex. Change not necessarily statistically significant.

d

Positive effect: intervention significantly reduced the risk of ≥1 laboratory-confirmed STIs in the intervention arm compared with the control arm; adverse effect: intervention significantly increased the risk of ≥1 laboratory-confirmed STIs in the intervention arm compared with the control arm; no effect: intervention showed no significant effect (positive or adverse) and, thus, the null hypothesis could not be rejected.

e

Attended 4 or 5 intervention sessions (of 5 total).

f

Attended 6 or 7 intervention sessions (of 7 total).

g

The proportion attending all 3 scheduled risk reduction counseling sessions; only 37% attended any of the 5 optional monthly support group sessions.

h

The proportion of men and women attending ≥75% of the 17 intervention sessions or completing the single control session.

i

The proportion in the intervention arm who reported viewing “most” or “all” of the intervention video and identifying at least of 1 of 5 target prevention messages; all individuals in the control arm experienced the “standard” waiting room environment.

j

The proportion of sex acts involving female condoms or involving male or female condoms.

k

The proportion of women reporting “consistent” use of female or male condoms.

l

The proportion of men reporting always using male condoms during the study.

m

The proportion who reported 100% diaphragm/gel use or using male condoms at least two-thirds of the time.

n

The proportion who were “ >75% compliant.”

o

The number of days that the assigned product was used divided by the total number of days that intercourse was reported.

p

The number of sex acts that the assigned product was used (with or without a condom) divided by the total number of sex acts reported.

q

The number of vaginal sex acts that the gel was used divided by the total number of vaginal sex acts reported at month 12.

r

The proportion of patients who reported that their partner was treated among those with only 1 partner, or who reported that all partners were treated among those with >1 partner.

s

The proportion with “all partners ‘very likely’ to have been treated.”

t

The proportion of patients successfully reinterviewed who reported giving PDPT to partner (intervention arm) or told partner to get treated (control arm).

u

The proportion of total partners tested and/or treated based on the number of PDPT slips returned (intervention arm) or verification in clinic and laboratory databases (control arm).

v

The proportion of enrolled residents who received treatment, calculated overall and not by study arm.

w

The proportion who received monthly directly observed therapy within 2 weeks of the scheduled follow-up visit; the adherence rate was calculated overall and not by study arm.

x

The proportion who received monthly directly observed therapy within 2 weeks of the scheduled follow-up visit.

y

The proportion who reported taking at least 95% of the prescribed doses, calculated overall and not by study arm.