TY - JOUR T1 - P457 A single dose of behaviour change: the impact of testing on behaviour and chlamydia transmission JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect SP - A213 LP - A214 DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2019-sti.539 VL - 95 IS - Suppl 1 AU - Daphne Van Wees AU - Chantal Den Daas AU - Janneke Heijne AU - Mirjam Kretzschmar Y1 - 2019/07/01 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/95/Suppl_1/A213.3.abstract N2 - Background The aim was to explore short-term effects of chlamydia testing on sexual behaviour also taking into account psychological characteristics, and to estimate the impact on chlamydia transmission of interventions aimed at sustaining or enhancing testing effects.Methods A cohort study was conducted among heterosexual STI clinic visitors aged 18–24 years. Risk classes based on behavioural and psychological characteristics, and transitions between classes three weeks after chlamydia testing, were identified using latent transition analysis. We developed a pair compartmental model with a susceptible-infected-susceptible structure informed by the cohort study. We estimated the impact of sustaining the found short-term effects of testing and of interventions enhancing these effects in those diagnosed, in those tested negative, or in all tested on chlamydia prevalence after five years relative to no effect.Results Four classes were identified (n=810, 13% chlamydia positive (CT+)): 19% of people were in class 1 (5% CT+), 15% in class 2 (10% CT+), 47% in class 3 (16% CT+), and 19% in class 4 (17% CT+). The number of new partners in the past year was higher in class 3 and 4, compared to class 1 and 2. Class 2 and 4 had lower intentions to use condoms, reported less condom use, and were more impulsive, compared to class 1 and 3. Chlamydia positives were more likely to move to a lower risk class after testing, compared to chlamydia negatives. Sustaining this short-term effect resulted in an estimated relative reduction in chlamydia prevalence of 27%. The impact of interventions enhancing behaviour change in those tested negative (−45%) or in all tested (−48%) was estimated to be larger than in those diagnosed (−31%).Conclusion Testing has strong short-term effects in chlamydia positives, but not in chlamydia negatives. Sustaining these effects is vital in controlling chlamydia transmission, as are interventions enhancing behaviour change in chlamydia negatives.Disclosure No significant relationships. ER -