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Trial reportJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2015

A web-based personally controlled health management system increases sexually transmitted infection screening rates in young people: a randomized controlled trial.

Nathan J Mortimer, Joel Rhee, Rebecca Guy, Andrew Hayen, Annie Y S Lau

Open access · bronzeAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Adult patient access to electronic health records.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021
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  7. A systematic review of eHealth modes in preventing sexually transmitted infections.Indian journal of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nathan J MortimerCentre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Joel RheeSchool of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia University Health Service, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Rebecca GuyThe Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Andrew HayenSchool of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Annie Y S LauCentre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia annie.lau@mq.edu.au.
UNSW Sydney · AUMacquarie University · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo determine if a web-based personally controlled health management system (PCHMS) could increase the uptake of sexually transmitted infections (STI) screening among a young university population.

methodsA non-blinded parallel-group randomized controlled trial was conducted. Participants aged 18-29 years were recruited from a university environment between April and August 2013, and randomized 1:1 to either the intervention group (immediate online PCHMS access) or control group (no PCHMS access). The study outcome was self-reported STI testing, measured by an online follow-up survey in October 2013.

resultsOf the 369 participants allocated to the PCHMS, 150 completed the follow-up survey, and of the 378 in the control group, 225 completed the follow-up survey. The proportion of the PCHMS group who underwent an STI test during the study period was 15.3% (23/150) compared with 7.6% (17/225) in the control group (P = .017). The difference in STI testing rates within the subgroup of sexually active participants (20.4% (23/113) of the PCHMS group compared with 9.6% (15/157) of the control group) was significantly higher (P = .027) than among non-sexually active participants. DISCUSSION: Access to the PCHMS was associated with a significant increase in participants undergoing STI testing. This is also the first study to demonstrate efficacy of a PCHMS targeting a health concern where susceptibility is generally perceived as low and the majority of infections are asymptomatic.

conclusionPCHMS interventions may provide an effective means of increasing the demand for STI testing which, combined with increased opportunistic testing by clinicians, could reduce the high and sustained rates of STIs in young people.

Indexed as

Health Records, PersonalInternetAdolescentAdultChlamydia InfectionsFemaleHumansLogistic ModelsMaleMass ScreeningNew South WalesPatient Acceptance of Health CareSexually Transmitted DiseasesYoung AdulteHealthpersonally controlled health management systemscreeningsexually transmitted infectionyoung adult

Identifiers

PMID25773130
PMCPMC11737643
OpenAlexW2147796283

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