A mixed methods approach to assess the likelihood of testing for STI using self-collected samples among behaviourally bisexual women

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 329-333

  Schick, Vanessa ^a   Van Der Pol, Barbara ^b   Dodge, Brian ^c   Baldwin, Aleta ^c   Dennis Fortenberry, J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAL INTERCOURSE; ANAL SAMPLE; ARTICLE; BISEXUAL FEMALE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOGAMY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; ORAL SAMPLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE; SCREENING TEST; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; TRICHOMONIASIS; VAGINAL SAMPLE; YOUNG ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BISEXUALITY; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SELF CARE; SEXUALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BISEXUALITY; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FEMALE; GONORRHEA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84938415460     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2014-051842     Document Type: Article

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