Utilization of the Community Popular Opinion Leader (C-POL) Model in Alabama

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Risk Behavior, Sexually Transmitted Diseases

In brief

Community members within the treatment city will report: 1)engaging in fewer sexual risk practices; 2)significantly higher condom use; 3) significantly higher rates of STD care seeking (including STD screening behaviors); 4) fewer having STDs in the past 6 months; 5) significantly higher awareness scores regarding syphilis and other STDs, as compared with those in the comparison city.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00260754

Run by

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

People needed

600

Starts

2002-10-01

Expected to finish

2005-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2006-05-31

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Clients who utilized two community homeless shelters in the affected community. The affected community was one that had significant syphilis morbidity at the onset of the study.

You may not qualify if…

• None

Where it is running

• University of Alabama, Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama, United States

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