An exploratory study of information-giving used to promote chlamydial test-seeking by students at a college family planning clinic

Partnership working, involving workers in various aspects of sexual health and a large UK further education college, took place to give information ab out genital tract chlamydial infection in order to promote chlamydial urine testing (LC, Chlamydia trachomatis Assay Abbott Diagnosis Division) for a limited period at the college's family planning clinic. Female students wer e more likely to report awareness about the availability of testing and to access the testing service. Uptake of testing was largely contemporaneous w ith information-giving work and sharply declined after information-giving h ad ceased. A small population of test seekers (including partners of index cases) was generated, which harvested a rate of genital tract chlamydial in fection similar to that found in family planning and genitourinary medicine clinics.