Uniting research communities to improve STD research - an introduction from the CDC and NIH

Article Abstract:

Investigators must improve research procedures used to study sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Scientists made progress towards this goal at the First Annual Symposium on Research Methods convened by the American Public Health Association in 1992. Researchers discussed the broad factors that effect research participation and the quality of self-reported sexual behavior obtained from heterosexual couples and in population-based sex surveys. Investigators also revealed that imperfect diagnostic tests may bias the strength of the relationship between risk factors and STDs. Other important issues in STD research merit attention. Data on STD-associated behaviors are often obtained from self-reports that are influenced by the subject's memory and the perceived social desirability of the response. Symptomless infections or a partner's secrecy about sexual history also complicate self-reported data.

Methods, Sexual behavior surveys

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Zenilman's anomaly reconsidered: fallible reports, ceteris paribus, and other hypotheses

Article Abstract:

Statistical re-analysis of data published in 1995 does not shed any new light on the surprising association between new or recurring sexually transmitted disease (STD) infections and consistent condom use. Statistical re-analyses addressed sampling dynamics and variable levels of condom use among patients with varied risk factors. Errors in patient reporting and some underlying but as yet unidentified patient risk factor have been the most widespread and reasonable explanations offered for the increases in STD rates seen among consistent condom users.

Usage, Condoms

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Factors Influencing Sexual Partner Referral for Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Uganda

Article Abstract:

People with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are most likely to refer their sexual partner for testing and treatment if the referral process is easy and they have successfully referred a partner before. This was the conclusion of a study of 507 patients with an STD who were seen at an STD clinic in Kampala, Uganda. Forty-two percent of the 599 partners of these patients were referred to the clinic.

Analysis, Medical referral

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