Table 2.
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.