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High Willingness to Participate in Partner Notification among Women Attending Reproductive Health and STI Clinics in Shenzhen, China: A Cross-Sectional Study

Genital Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections (STI) worldwide. We explored the factors associated with willingness to participate in partner notification (PN) among women attending reproductive health and STI clinics in Shenzhen, China. An anonymous que...

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Autores principales: Weng, Rongxing, Yu, Weiye, Hong, Fuchang, Zhang, Chunlai, Wen, Lizhang, Wang, Feng, Luo, Yiting, Ye, Jianbin, Tang, Fen, Wang, Honglin, Chen, Xiangsheng, Cai, Yumao
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7013575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31936047
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17020386
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author Weng, Rongxing
Yu, Weiye
Hong, Fuchang
Zhang, Chunlai
Wen, Lizhang
Wang, Feng
Luo, Yiting
Ye, Jianbin
Tang, Fen
Wang, Honglin
Chen, Xiangsheng
Cai, Yumao
author_facet Weng, Rongxing
Yu, Weiye
Hong, Fuchang
Zhang, Chunlai
Wen, Lizhang
Wang, Feng
Luo, Yiting
Ye, Jianbin
Tang, Fen
Wang, Honglin
Chen, Xiangsheng
Cai, Yumao
author_sort Weng, Rongxing
collection PubMed
description Genital Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections (STI) worldwide. We explored the factors associated with willingness to participate in partner notification (PN) among women attending reproductive health and STI clinics in Shenzhen, China. An anonymous questionnaire was used to collect the sociodemographic characteristics, STI histories, and willingness to participate in routine CT screening and partner notification. In total, 87.31% (n = 10,780) of participants were willing to notify their sex partner(s) if they were diagnosed with a CT infection. Willingness to complete PN was significantly associated with: being married, residing in Shenzhen ≥1 year, having completed junior college or higher, not currently reporting STI-related symptoms, willing to have routine CT screening, and having a correct understanding of the health sequelae of CT infection. Nearly all women surveyed at reproductive health and STI clinics in Shenzhen reported willingness to complete PN. Promoting PN in these settings could help detect a large number of additional CT cases. Our findings provide evidence and implications for public health interventions on PN and suggest that targeted interventions are urgently needed for particular subpopulations including those not currently married, with shorter residency, lower education, and less awareness about the dangers of CT infection.
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spelling pubmed-70135752020-03-09 High Willingness to Participate in Partner Notification among Women Attending Reproductive Health and STI Clinics in Shenzhen, China: A Cross-Sectional Study Weng, Rongxing Yu, Weiye Hong, Fuchang Zhang, Chunlai Wen, Lizhang Wang, Feng Luo, Yiting Ye, Jianbin Tang, Fen Wang, Honglin Chen, Xiangsheng Cai, Yumao Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Genital Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections (STI) worldwide. We explored the factors associated with willingness to participate in partner notification (PN) among women attending reproductive health and STI clinics in Shenzhen, China. An anonymous questionnaire was used to collect the sociodemographic characteristics, STI histories, and willingness to participate in routine CT screening and partner notification. In total, 87.31% (n = 10,780) of participants were willing to notify their sex partner(s) if they were diagnosed with a CT infection. Willingness to complete PN was significantly associated with: being married, residing in Shenzhen ≥1 year, having completed junior college or higher, not currently reporting STI-related symptoms, willing to have routine CT screening, and having a correct understanding of the health sequelae of CT infection. Nearly all women surveyed at reproductive health and STI clinics in Shenzhen reported willingness to complete PN. Promoting PN in these settings could help detect a large number of additional CT cases. Our findings provide evidence and implications for public health interventions on PN and suggest that targeted interventions are urgently needed for particular subpopulations including those not currently married, with shorter residency, lower education, and less awareness about the dangers of CT infection. MDPI 2020-01-07 2020-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7013575/ /pubmed/31936047 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17020386 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Weng, Rongxing
Yu, Weiye
Hong, Fuchang
Zhang, Chunlai
Wen, Lizhang
Wang, Feng
Luo, Yiting
Ye, Jianbin
Tang, Fen
Wang, Honglin
Chen, Xiangsheng
Cai, Yumao
High Willingness to Participate in Partner Notification among Women Attending Reproductive Health and STI Clinics in Shenzhen, China: A Cross-Sectional Study
title High Willingness to Participate in Partner Notification among Women Attending Reproductive Health and STI Clinics in Shenzhen, China: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full High Willingness to Participate in Partner Notification among Women Attending Reproductive Health and STI Clinics in Shenzhen, China: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr High Willingness to Participate in Partner Notification among Women Attending Reproductive Health and STI Clinics in Shenzhen, China: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed High Willingness to Participate in Partner Notification among Women Attending Reproductive Health and STI Clinics in Shenzhen, China: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_short High Willingness to Participate in Partner Notification among Women Attending Reproductive Health and STI Clinics in Shenzhen, China: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort high willingness to participate in partner notification among women attending reproductive health and sti clinics in shenzhen, china: a cross-sectional study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7013575/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31936047
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17020386
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