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. 2009 Oct 12;65(2):100–110. doi: 10.1136/jech.2008.085456

Table 2.

Secondary outcomes for sexual behaviour change interventions

Study Outcome OR/SMD (95% CI)
High quality trials
Egger44(condom in room commercial sex hotel) Retrieval of at least one condom OR 1.31 (1.09 to 1.75)
Egger44(condom handed to client commercial sex hotel) Retrieval of at least one condom OR 1.32 (1.03 to 1.61)
Egger44(condom in room, non-commercial sex hotel) Retrieval of at least one condom OR 181 (1.14 to 2.81)
Egger44(condom handed to client non-commercial sex hotel) Retrieval of at least one condom OR1.52 (1.01 to 2.38)
Egger44(leaflet, commercial sex workers) Retrieval of at least one condom OR0.89 (0.84 to 0.94)
Egger44(leaflet non-commercial sex workers) Retrieval of at least one condom OR 1.03 (0.97 to 1.08)
Ehrhardt30 Maintaining/improving safe-sex (women) OR 1.64 (0.95 to 2.86)
Other trials
Bellingham89 Condom use at last sex (vaginal or unspecified) OR 0.58 (0.31 to 1.12)
Downs23 Number of condom failures (over period ≥3 months) SMD −0.25 (−0.55 to 0.06)
Downs23 Consistency of condom use with partners SMD 0.14 (−0.14 to 0.43)
Downs23 Number of condom failures SMD −0.25 (−0.55 to 0.06)
Hobfoll88 Condom use scale (never – always) anal sex SMD 0.316 (−0.034 to 0.67)
Jemmot25 Number of days had unprotected sex in last year SMD −4.42 (−4.89 to −3.95)
Kalichman80 No condom, no sex (vaginal or unspecified) OR 1.90 (0.74 to 4.88)
Kalichman80 Condom use over 50% of the time OR 2.36 (0.92 to 6.01)
Picciano90 Frequency of condom use (oral sex) SMD 0.062 (−0.35 to 0.48)
Robert91(eroticising safer sex) 100% condom use or abstinence (anal sex) OR 0.42 (0.10 to 1.89)
Robert91(Stop AIDS Programme) 100% condom use or abstinence (anal sex) OR 0.96 (0.18 to 5.22)
Roffman74 Proportion of oral sex protected SMD 0.02 (−0.21 to 0.25)
Roffman74 Proportion of anal sex protected SMD 0.28 (0.05 to 0.52)
Rosser75 Change in unsafe anal sex SMD −0.20 (−0.51 to 0.11)
Rosser75 Change in failure to use condoms SMD −0.79 (−1.35 to −0.23)
Stephenson92 Unprotected first sex by age 16 y OR 0.89 (0.24 to 3.31)
Shain 1999 and 200229 <5 episodes of unsafe sex in last 3 months OR 2.09 (1.44 to 3.05)
Shlay33 Condom use over 50% of the time OR 1.14 (0.82 to 1.57)
Swanson93 Percentage of time condoms used to prevent herpes SMD 0.28 (0.01 to 0.54)
The Voluntary HIV Testing Study70 100% protected sex with non-primary partner OR 1.32 (0.98 to 1.78)
Tripiboon94 Condom use score (for married couples) SMD 11.04 (10.14 to 11.94)
Wenger57 No condom, no sex (unspecified or vaginal) OR 2.55 (1.19 to 5.45)

Results in italics are for trials with a factorial design or trials where the results of more than one comparison group tested against a singe control group are reported.

All secondary outcomes reported in this table are used in less than three other trials of this type of intervention.