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The future of STI screening and treatment for youth: a National Survey of youth perspectives and intentions

BACKGROUND: Sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates continue to rise in the U.S., with disproportionately high rates among those aged 15–24 years. Effective programs and policies are necessary to address this growing public health problem. The purpose of this study is to assess the perspectives o...

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Autores principales: Gogineni, Vinaya, Waselewski, Marika E., Jamison, Cornelius D., Bell, Jasmine A., Hadler, Nicole, Chaudhry, Kiren A., Chang, Tammy, Mmeje, Okeoma O.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8567981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34736427
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12091-y
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author Gogineni, Vinaya
Waselewski, Marika E.
Jamison, Cornelius D.
Bell, Jasmine A.
Hadler, Nicole
Chaudhry, Kiren A.
Chang, Tammy
Mmeje, Okeoma O.
author_facet Gogineni, Vinaya
Waselewski, Marika E.
Jamison, Cornelius D.
Bell, Jasmine A.
Hadler, Nicole
Chaudhry, Kiren A.
Chang, Tammy
Mmeje, Okeoma O.
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description BACKGROUND: Sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates continue to rise in the U.S., with disproportionately high rates among those aged 15–24 years. Effective programs and policies are necessary to address this growing public health problem. The purpose of this study is to assess the perspectives of a national sample of youth on access to STI care and behaviors regarding STIs. METHODS: MyVoice, a national text message survey of youth, was used to pose four open-ended questions on STI screening and treatment to 1115 youth aged 14–24 in August 2018. A mixed-methods strategy was employed for the study. Qualitative data was analyzed using a modified grounded theory approach. Summary statistics were calculated for demographic data and prevalence of themes. RESULTS: Of the 800 participants who responded to at least one question (72% response rate), mean age was 19 years (SD = 3.1), 55% identified as female, 61% identified as non-Hispanic white, and 33% qualified for free/reduced lunch. A majority felt it would be easy to get screened (69%) or treated (68%) for an STI. Nearly all respondents (95%) stated they would share an STI diagnosis with their sexual partners. CONCLUSIONS: Despite high rates of STIs among youth, most respondents reported that STI screening and treatment is accessible, and they would share an STI diagnosis with their partner. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-12091-y.
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spelling pubmed-85679812021-11-05 The future of STI screening and treatment for youth: a National Survey of youth perspectives and intentions Gogineni, Vinaya Waselewski, Marika E. Jamison, Cornelius D. Bell, Jasmine A. Hadler, Nicole Chaudhry, Kiren A. Chang, Tammy Mmeje, Okeoma O. BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: Sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates continue to rise in the U.S., with disproportionately high rates among those aged 15–24 years. Effective programs and policies are necessary to address this growing public health problem. The purpose of this study is to assess the perspectives of a national sample of youth on access to STI care and behaviors regarding STIs. METHODS: MyVoice, a national text message survey of youth, was used to pose four open-ended questions on STI screening and treatment to 1115 youth aged 14–24 in August 2018. A mixed-methods strategy was employed for the study. Qualitative data was analyzed using a modified grounded theory approach. Summary statistics were calculated for demographic data and prevalence of themes. RESULTS: Of the 800 participants who responded to at least one question (72% response rate), mean age was 19 years (SD = 3.1), 55% identified as female, 61% identified as non-Hispanic white, and 33% qualified for free/reduced lunch. A majority felt it would be easy to get screened (69%) or treated (68%) for an STI. Nearly all respondents (95%) stated they would share an STI diagnosis with their sexual partners. CONCLUSIONS: Despite high rates of STIs among youth, most respondents reported that STI screening and treatment is accessible, and they would share an STI diagnosis with their partner. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12889-021-12091-y. BioMed Central 2021-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8567981/ /pubmed/34736427 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12091-y Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Gogineni, Vinaya
Waselewski, Marika E.
Jamison, Cornelius D.
Bell, Jasmine A.
Hadler, Nicole
Chaudhry, Kiren A.
Chang, Tammy
Mmeje, Okeoma O.
The future of STI screening and treatment for youth: a National Survey of youth perspectives and intentions
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8567981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34736427
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12091-y
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