Characteristics of the Audience Reached by the National Network of Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinical Prevention Training Centers and Correlation With Sexually Transmitted Infection Rates, 2015 to 2020

Benjamin C Hauschild; Helen C Burnside; Barbara A Gray; Christine Johnston; Natalie Neu; Ina U Park; Hilary E L Reno; Anne Rompalo; Nicholas Van Wagoner; Karen A Wendel; Alexandra Coor; Erin Tromble; Cornelis A Rietmeijer; from the National Evaluation Center, National Network of STD Clinical Prevention Training Centers

doi:10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001590

Characteristics of the Audience Reached by the National Network of Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinical Prevention Training Centers and Correlation With Sexually Transmitted Infection Rates, 2015 to 2020

Sex Transm Dis. 2022 Apr 1;49(4):313-317. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001590.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ From the Denver Prevention Training Center, Public Health Institute at Denver Health, Denver, CO.
² Sylvie Ratelle STD/HIV Prevention Training Center, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Jamaica Plain, MA.
³ University of Washington Prevention Training Center, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
⁴ New York City STD Prevention Training Center, Colombia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY.
⁵ California Prevention Training Center, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
⁶ St. Louis HIV/STI Prevention Training Center, Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.
⁷ Prevention Training Center at Johns Hopkins, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
⁸ Southeast HIV/STD Prevention Training Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL.
⁹ Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
¹⁰ Rietmeijer Consulting, LLC, Denver, CO.

PMID: 35312669
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001590

Abstract

Background: The National Network of Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinical Prevention Training Centers (NNPTC) trains clinical providers to diagnose and treat sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States. The purpose of this study was to examine the demographics of clinical providers and to correlate the number of training episodes with STI rates at the county level.

Methods: Registration data were collected between April 1, 2015, and March 31, 2020, in a custom Learning Management System from clinical providers taking NNPTC training. Using the 2018 STI surveillance data, counties were divided into quartiles based on reportable STI case rates and the number of county-level training events was compared per quartile. Univariate and multivariate analyses were conducted in IBM SPSS Statistics 23 (Armonk, NY) and SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1 (Cary, NC).

Results: From 2015 to 2020, the NNPTC trained 21,327 individuals, predominantly in the nursing professions and working in a public health environment. In multivariate analysis, the number of training events was significantly associated with higher STI rates at the county level (P < 0.0001) and the state where a prevention training center is located (P < 0001).

Conclusions: The analysis suggests that NNPTC trainings are reaching the clinical providers working in geographic areas with higher STI rates.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Humans
Public Health
Sexually Transmitted Diseases* / diagnosis
Sexually Transmitted Diseases* / epidemiology
Sexually Transmitted Diseases* / prevention & control
United States / epidemiology