Interrelationships among douching practices, risky sexual practices, and history of self-reported sexually transmitted diseases in an urban population

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 90-99

  Foxman, Betsy ^a   Aral, Sevgi O ^a,b   Holmes, King K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; COITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ADULT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; MENSTRUATION; RISK-TAKING; SELF-EVALUATION PROGRAMS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; URBAN POPULATION; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0031888215     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-199802000-00006     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Aral SO, Mosher WD, Cates W. Vaginal douching among women of reproductive age in the United States: 1988. Am J Public Health 1992; 82:210-214.
2. Brown JE, Ayowa OB, Brown RC. Dry and tight: Sexual practices and potential AIDS risk in Zaire. Soc Sci Med 1993; 37:989-994.
3. Civic D, Wilson D. Dry sex in Zimbabwe and implications for condom use. Soc Sci Med 1996; 42:91-98.
4. Dallabetta GA, Miotti PG, Chiphangwi JD, Liomba G, Canner JK, Saah AJ. Traditional vaginal agents: Use and association with HIV infection in Malawian women. AIDS 1995; 9:293-297.
5. Tanfer K, Aral SO. Sexual intercourse during menstruation and self-reported sexually transmitted disease history among women. Sex Transm Dis 1996; 23:395-401.
6. Kassler WJ, Aral SO. Beyond risk groups: Behavioral correlates of HIV seroconversion in sexually transmitted disease clinic patients [Abstract]. In: Eleventh Meeting of the International Society for STD Research, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 27-30, 1995.
7. Malamba SS, Wagner HU, Maude G, et al. Risk factors for HIV-1 infection in adults in a rural Ugandan community: A case-control study. AIDS 1994: 8:253-257.
8. Wolner-Hanssen P, Eschenbach DA, Paavonen J, et al. Association between vaginal douching and acute pelvic inflammatory disease. JAMA 1990; 263:1936-1941.
9. Scholes D, Daling JR, Stergachis A, Weiss NS, Wang SP, Grayston JT. Vaginal douching as a risk factor for acute pelvic inflammatory disease. Obstet Gynecol 1993; 81:601-606.
10. Daling JR, Weiss NS, Schwartz SM, et al. Vaginal douching and the risk of tubal pregnancy. Epidemiology 1991; 2:40-48.
11. Baird DD, Weinberg CR, Voigt LF, Daling JR. Vaginal douching and reduced fertility. Am J Public Health 1996; 86:844-850.
12. Levine WC, Pope V, Farshy C, et al. Association of vaginal douching with increase in cervicitis and endocervical CD4 lymphocytes among women attending an STD clinic [Abstract]. Eleventh Meeting of the International Society for STD Research, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 27-30, 1995.
13. Osmond DH, Charlebois E, Sheppard HW, et al. Comparison of risk factors for hepatitis C and hepatitis B virus infection in homosexual men. J Infect Dis 1993; 167:66-71.
14. Samuel MC, Hessol N, Shiboski S, Engel RR, Speed TP, Winkelstein W. Factors associated with human immunodeficiency virus seroconversion in homosexual men in three San Francisco cohort studies, 1984-1989. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 1993; 6:303-312.
15. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service. Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance 1992. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, July, 1993.
16. Rice RJ, Roberts PL, Handsfield HH, Holmes KK. Sociodemographic distribution of gonorrhea incidence: Implications for prevention and behavioral research. Am J Public Health 1991; 81:1252-1258.
17. Laumann EO, Gagnon JH, Michael RT, Michaels S. The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994.
18. SAS Institute, Inc. SAS for Personal Computers, Version 6 Edition. Gary, NC: SAS Institute, Inc., 1994.
19. Melnick SL, Burke GL, Perkins LL, et al. Sexually transmitted diseases among young heterosexual urban adults. Public Health Rep 1993; 108:673-679.
20. Stone KM, Zaidi A, Rosero-Bixby L, et al. Sexual behavior, sexually transmitted diseases, and risk of cervical cancer. Epidemiology 1995; 6:409-414.
21. Jossens MOR, Eskenazi B, Schacter J, Sweet RL. Risk factors for pelvic inflammatory diseases: A case control study. Sex Transm Dis 1996; 23:239-247.
22. Sweet RL, Blankfort-Doyle M, Robbie MO, Schacter J. The occurrence of chlamydial and gonococcal salpingitis during the menstrual cycle. JAMA 1986; 255:2062-2064.
23. Wadsworth J, Hickman M, Johnson AM, Wellings K, Field J. Geographic variation in sexual behavior in Britain: Implications for sexually transmitted disease epidemiology and sexual health promotion. AIDS 1996; 10:193-199.
24. Aral SO. Patterns of sex partner recruitment and types of mixing as determinants of STD transmission: Limits to the spread of sexually transmitted infections. Venereology 1995; 8:240-242.
25. Koopman JS, Weed DL. Epigenesis theory: A mathematical model relating causal concepts of pathogenesis in individuals to disease patterns in populations. Am J Epidemiol 1990; 132:366-390.
26. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. 1990 Census of Population and Housing. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994.
27. Rohan TE, McLaughlin JR, Harnish DG. Repeatability of interview-derived information on sexual history: A study in women. Epidemiology 1994; 5:360-363.
28. Seage GR, Mayer KH, Horsburge CR, Cai B, Lamb GA. Corroboration of sexual histories among male homosexual couples. Am J Epidemiol 1992; 135:79-84.
29. Lagarde E, Enel C, Pison G. Reliability of reports of sexual behavior: A study of married couples in rural West Africa. Am J Epidemiol 1995; 141:1194-1200.