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Home-based chlamydia testing of young people attending a music festival - who will pee and post?
BACKGROUND: Chlamydia is most common among young people, but only a small proportion of Australian young people are tested annually. Home-based chlamydia testing has been piloted in several countries to increase testing rates, but uptake has been low. We aimed to identify predictors of uptake of hom...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2912808/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20584287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-376 |
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author | Sacks-Davis, Rachel Gold, Judy Aitken, Campbell K Hellard, Margaret E |
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description | BACKGROUND: Chlamydia is most common among young people, but only a small proportion of Australian young people are tested annually. Home-based chlamydia testing has been piloted in several countries to increase testing rates, but uptake has been low. We aimed to identify predictors of uptake of home-based chlamydia testing to inform future testing programs. METHODS: We offered home-based chlamydia testing kits to participants in a sexual behaviour cross-sectional survey conducted at a music festival in Melbourne, Australia. Those who consented received a testing kit and were asked to return their urine or vaginal swab sample via post. RESULTS: Nine hundred and two sexually active music festival attendees aged 16-29 completed the survey; 313 (35%) opted to receive chlamydia testing kits, and 67 of 313 (21%) returned a specimen for testing. One participant was infected with chlamydia (1% prevalence). Independent predictors of consenting to receive a testing kit included older age, knowing that chlamydia can make women infertile, reporting more than three lifetime sexual partners and inconsistent condom use. Independent predictors of returning a sample to the laboratory included knowing that chlamydia can be asymptomatic, not having had an STI test in the past six months and not living with parents. CONCLUSIONS: A low proportion of participants returned their chlamydia test, suggesting that this model is not ideal for reaching young people. Home-based chlamydia testing is most attractive to those who report engaging in sexual risk behaviours and are aware of the often asymptomatic nature and potential sequelae of chlamydia infection. |
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spelling | pubmed-29128082010-07-31 Home-based chlamydia testing of young people attending a music festival - who will pee and post? Sacks-Davis, Rachel Gold, Judy Aitken, Campbell K Hellard, Margaret E BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Chlamydia is most common among young people, but only a small proportion of Australian young people are tested annually. Home-based chlamydia testing has been piloted in several countries to increase testing rates, but uptake has been low. We aimed to identify predictors of uptake of home-based chlamydia testing to inform future testing programs. METHODS: We offered home-based chlamydia testing kits to participants in a sexual behaviour cross-sectional survey conducted at a music festival in Melbourne, Australia. Those who consented received a testing kit and were asked to return their urine or vaginal swab sample via post. RESULTS: Nine hundred and two sexually active music festival attendees aged 16-29 completed the survey; 313 (35%) opted to receive chlamydia testing kits, and 67 of 313 (21%) returned a specimen for testing. One participant was infected with chlamydia (1% prevalence). Independent predictors of consenting to receive a testing kit included older age, knowing that chlamydia can make women infertile, reporting more than three lifetime sexual partners and inconsistent condom use. Independent predictors of returning a sample to the laboratory included knowing that chlamydia can be asymptomatic, not having had an STI test in the past six months and not living with parents. CONCLUSIONS: A low proportion of participants returned their chlamydia test, suggesting that this model is not ideal for reaching young people. Home-based chlamydia testing is most attractive to those who report engaging in sexual risk behaviours and are aware of the often asymptomatic nature and potential sequelae of chlamydia infection. BioMed Central 2010-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC2912808/ /pubmed/20584287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-376 Text en Copyright ©2010 Sacks-Davis et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Sacks-Davis, Rachel Gold, Judy Aitken, Campbell K Hellard, Margaret E Home-based chlamydia testing of young people attending a music festival - who will pee and post? |
title | Home-based chlamydia testing of young people attending a music festival - who will pee and post? |
title_full | Home-based chlamydia testing of young people attending a music festival - who will pee and post? |
title_fullStr | Home-based chlamydia testing of young people attending a music festival - who will pee and post? |
title_full_unstemmed | Home-based chlamydia testing of young people attending a music festival - who will pee and post? |
title_short | Home-based chlamydia testing of young people attending a music festival - who will pee and post? |
title_sort | home-based chlamydia testing of young people attending a music festival - who will pee and post? |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2912808/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20584287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-376 |
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