Buhrer-Skinner Monika, Muller Reinhold, Buettner Petra G, Gordon Rose, Debattista Joseph
Anton Breinl Centre for Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia.
Sex Health. 2011 Jun;8(2):248-50. doi: 10.1071/SH10064.
To assess a mailed self-collection kit for chlamydia testing as an intervention to increase post-treatment retesting rates.
This prospective intervention study took place at a sexual health clinic in Townsville, North Queensland (Australia) between 2006 and 2008. The intervention consisted of offering to mail a self-collection kit for retesting 3 months after treatment. The achieved retesting rates were compared to those from the previous year and to concurrent controls who did not participate in the intervention. Both control groups received standard advice on retesting.
Of the 46 participants in the intervention group, 34.8% returned the sample for retesting 3 to 4 months after initial treatment, in comparison to 6.8% of the historic control groups (n=206) and 1.4% of the concurrent control group (n=142) (P<0.001, respectively).
Retesting rates for Chlamydia trachomatis were substantially and significantly improved using the mailed self-collection kit evidencing that the kit could deliver a much needed intervention to improve notoriously low retesting rates.
评估用于衣原体检测的邮寄式自我采样试剂盒，作为提高治疗后复查率的一种干预措施。
这项前瞻性干预研究于2006年至2008年在澳大利亚北昆士兰汤斯维尔的一家性健康诊所进行。干预措施包括在治疗3个月后提供邮寄式自我采样试剂盒用于复查。将实际复查率与上一年的复查率以及未参与干预的同期对照组的复查率进行比较。两个对照组均接受了关于复查的标准建议。
干预组的46名参与者中，34.8%在初次治疗3至4个月后返还样本进行复查，相比之下，历史对照组（n = 206）的复查率为6.8%，同期对照组（n = 142）的复查率为1.4%（P均<0.001）。
使用邮寄式自我采样试剂盒可显著提高沙眼衣原体的复查率，这表明该试剂盒能够提供一项急需的干预措施，以改善一直很低的复查率。
