Trial reportGenitourinary medicine1997
Patient attitudes to type specific serological tests in the diagnosis of genital herpes.
Trial report in Genitourinary medicine, 1997. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.
- The acceptability of the introduction of a type specific herpes antibody screening test into a genitourinary medicine clinic in the United Kingdom.Sexually transmitted infections · 2003Article
- Genital herpes serotesting: a study of the epidemiology and patients' knowledge and attitude among STD clinic attenders in Coventry, UK.Sexually transmitted infections · 2003Article
- Sorting out the new HSV type specific antibody tests.Sexually transmitted infections · 2001Review
- Public Health Strategies to Prevent Genital Herpes: Where Do We Stand?Current infectious disease reports · 2000Article
- British Co-operative Clinical Group national survey on diagnostic issues surrounding genital herpes. MSSVD Special Interest Group on Genital Herpes and the British Co-operative Clinical Group.Sexually transmitted infections · 1999Article
- Genital herpes: review of the epidemic and potential use of type-specific serology.Clinical microbiology reviews · 1999Review
- Sexually transmitted infections.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1998Review
- Genital herpes: Heisenberg revisited.Sexually transmitted infections · 1998Article
- Role of type specific herpes simplex virus serology in the diagnosis and management of genital herpes.Sexually transmitted infections · 1998Article
- Premarket evaluation of a commercial glycoprotein G-based enzyme immunoassay for herpes simplex virus type-specific antibodies.Journal of clinical microbiology · 1998Article
- HSV type specific antibody tests: patients are ready, are clinicians?Genitourinary medicine · 1997Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess patient attitudes to HSV-2 serotesting and the effect of providing detailed information regarding genital herpes, the blood test, and its implications.
methodsConsecutive genitourinary medicine clinic attenders were asked to complete an anonymous self administered questionnaire. Half received minimal additional information while the other half received a detailed information sheet.
resultsOverall, 200 clinic attenders with a median age of 27 years (range 15-57) completed the questionnaire, 92.4% wanted to know if they, and 90.8% if their partners, had been infected with genital herpes; 65% expected testing as part of screening without further discussion. Overall, on a scale of 1-10, 2% scored 1 (equivalent to definitely not wanting a test), while 45.5% scored 10 (equivalent to definitely wanting a test). The overall median score was 9 (95% confidence interval 8-10) suggesting a strong opinion in favour of testing. The desire to test in each of five described hypothetical situations increased significantly (p < 0.001) when compared with the general desire.
conclusionsClinic attenders expressed a strong preference to be serotested for HSV-2 which was unaltered by the provision of information highlighting implications, although influenced significantly by the context in which they were asked. Should reliable tests become available the level of demand could have important implications on laboratory and counselling resources.
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