Table 2

Secondary outcomes for sexual behaviour change interventions

StudyOutcomeOR/SMD (95% CI)
High quality trials
Egger44 (condom in room commercial sex hotel)Retrieval of at least one condomOR 1.31 (1.09 to 1.75)
Egger44 (condom handed to client commercial sex hotel)Retrieval of at least one condomOR 1.32 (1.03 to 1.61)
Egger44 (condom in room, non-commercial sex hotel)Retrieval of at least one condomOR 181 (1.14 to 2.81)
Egger44 (condom handed to client non-commercial sex hotel)Retrieval of at least one condomOR 1.52 (1.01 to 2.38)
Egger44 (leaflet, commercial sex workers)Retrieval of at least one condomOR 0.89 (0.84 to 0.94)
Egger44 (leaflet non-commercial sex workers)Retrieval of at least one condomOR 1.03 (0.97 to 1.08)
Ehrhardt30Maintaining/improving safe-sex (women)OR 1.64 (0.95 to 2.86)
Other trials
Bellingham89Condom use at last sex (vaginal or unspecified)OR 0.58 (0.31 to 1.12)
Downs23Number of condom failures (over period ≥3 months)SMD −0.25 (−0.55 to 0.06)
Downs23Consistency of condom use with partnersSMD 0.14 (−0.14 to 0.43)
Downs23Number of condom failuresSMD −0.25 (−0.55 to 0.06)
Hobfoll88Condom use scale (never – always) anal sexSMD 0.316 (−0.034 to 0.67)
Jemmot25Number of days had unprotected sex in last yearSMD −4.42 (−4.89 to −3.95)
Kalichman80No condom, no sex (vaginal or unspecified)OR 1.90 (0.74 to 4.88)
Kalichman80Condom use over 50% of the timeOR 2.36 (0.92 to 6.01)
Picciano90Frequency of condom use (oral sex)SMD 0.062 (−0.35 to 0.48)
Robert91 (eroticising safer sex)100% condom use or abstinence (anal sex)OR 0.42 (0.10 to 1.89)
Robert91 (Stop AIDS Programme)100% condom use or abstinence (anal sex)OR 0.96 (0.18 to 5.22)
Roffman74Proportion of oral sex protectedSMD 0.02 (−0.21 to 0.25)
Roffman74Proportion of anal sex protectedSMD 0.28 (0.05 to 0.52)
Rosser75Change in unsafe anal sexSMD −0.20 (−0.51 to 0.11)
Rosser75Change in failure to use condomsSMD −0.79 (−1.35 to −0.23)
Stephenson92Unprotected first sex by age 16 yOR 0.89 (0.24 to 3.31)
Shain 1999 and 200229<5 episodes of unsafe sex in last 3 monthsOR 2.09 (1.44 to 3.05)
Shlay33Condom use over 50% of the timeOR 1.14 (0.82 to 1.57)
Swanson93Percentage of time condoms used to prevent herpesSMD 0.28 (0.01 to 0.54)
The Voluntary HIV Testing Study70100% protected sex with non-primary partnerOR 1.32 (0.98 to 1.78)
Tripiboon94Condom use score (for married couples)SMD 11.04 (10.14 to 11.94)
Wenger57No condom, no sex (unspecified or vaginal)OR 2.55 (1.19 to 5.45)
  • Results in italics are for trials with a factorial design or trials where the results of more than one comparison group tested against a singe control group are reported.

  • All secondary outcomes reported in this table are used in less than three other trials of this type of intervention.