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Selective Participation In Syphilis Partner Services And Implications For Control Efforts, Fulton County, Georgia, 2013-2015, Sarah Hamid, Udodirim N. Onwubiko, David P. Holland, Allison T. Chamberlain
Selective Participation In Syphilis Partner Services And Implications For Control Efforts, Fulton County, Georgia, 2013-2015, Sarah Hamid, Udodirim N. Onwubiko, David P. Holland, Allison T. Chamberlain
Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association
Background. Partner services is an important component of syphilis control, but not all persons with syphilis participate, limiting the strategy’s potential effectiveness and possibly introducing selection biases into analyses of risk factors for reinfection. This study aimed to describe demographic and clinical differences between partner-services participants and non-participants in Fulton County, Georgia, and to assess the association between participation and syphilis re-diagnosis.
Methods. Using surveillance data, we identified primary and secondary syphilis cases in Fulton County with a first diagnosis in 2013-2015. We compared the distributions of demographic and clinical characteristics between participants and non-participants using chi-squared tests. …