Abstract
Background: As alternative for patients that fear genital examination, we assessed adolescent´s comfort and ease with self-collected samples for nucleic acid amplification testing for sexually transmitted infections. Patients and Methods: Sexually active Chilean adolescents and youth under 25 years (174 males and 117 females) were enrolled. Females used self-collected vaginal swabs and males collected first-stream urine. A satisfaction survey evaluating self-sampling system was applied. Results: Self-collection was considered easy in 99.3% of the interviewees (CI 95% 0.88-0.98). In women, 79.3% preferred vaginal self-collected samples than pelvic exam (CI 95% 0.73-0.85). In men, 80.3% preferred self-collected first-stream urine to urethral swabs (CI 95% 0.73-0.87). Assuming that self-collected sampling were available, 89.6% of women (CI 95% 0.85-0.94) and 93.2% of men (CI 95% 0.89-0.98) would be prone to be tested more often. Ease of self-collected sampling is not associated with age, gender, educational level or poverty. Conclusions: Chile currently does not have sexually transmitted infections surveillance or screening programs for youth and adolescents. Given self-collected sampling´s good acceptability, it could be successfully used when these programs are implemented.
| Original language | Spanish |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 116-119 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Revista Chilena de Infectologia |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| State | Published - 2017 |
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Keywords
- Adolescents
- Chile
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Urine specimen collection
- Vaginal sampling
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Infectious Diseases
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Adolescentes encuentran fácil tomar sus propias muestras para estudio de infecciones de transmisión sexual. / Huneeus Vergara, Andrea; Fernandez, Mario; Schilling, Andrea; Parra, Paulina; Zakharova, Aleksandra.
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T1 - Adolescentes encuentran fácil tomar sus propias muestras para estudio de infecciones de transmisión sexual
AU - Huneeus Vergara, Andrea
AU - Fernandez, Mario
AU - Schilling, Andrea
AU - Parra, Paulina
AU - Zakharova, Aleksandra
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Background: As alternative for patients that fear genital examination, we assessed adolescent´s comfort and ease with self-collected samples for nucleic acid amplification testing for sexually transmitted infections. Patients and Methods: Sexually active Chilean adolescents and youth under 25 years (174 males and 117 females) were enrolled. Females used self-collected vaginal swabs and males collected first-stream urine. A satisfaction survey evaluating self-sampling system was applied. Results: Self-collection was considered easy in 99.3% of the interviewees (CI 95% 0.88-0.98). In women, 79.3% preferred vaginal self-collected samples than pelvic exam (CI 95% 0.73-0.85). In men, 80.3% preferred self-collected first-stream urine to urethral swabs (CI 95% 0.73-0.87). Assuming that self-collected sampling were available, 89.6% of women (CI 95% 0.85-0.94) and 93.2% of men (CI 95% 0.89-0.98) would be prone to be tested more often. Ease of self-collected sampling is not associated with age, gender, educational level or poverty. Conclusions: Chile currently does not have sexually transmitted infections surveillance or screening programs for youth and adolescents. Given self-collected sampling´s good acceptability, it could be successfully used when these programs are implemented.
AB - Background: As alternative for patients that fear genital examination, we assessed adolescent´s comfort and ease with self-collected samples for nucleic acid amplification testing for sexually transmitted infections. Patients and Methods: Sexually active Chilean adolescents and youth under 25 years (174 males and 117 females) were enrolled. Females used self-collected vaginal swabs and males collected first-stream urine. A satisfaction survey evaluating self-sampling system was applied. Results: Self-collection was considered easy in 99.3% of the interviewees (CI 95% 0.88-0.98). In women, 79.3% preferred vaginal self-collected samples than pelvic exam (CI 95% 0.73-0.85). In men, 80.3% preferred self-collected first-stream urine to urethral swabs (CI 95% 0.73-0.87). Assuming that self-collected sampling were available, 89.6% of women (CI 95% 0.85-0.94) and 93.2% of men (CI 95% 0.89-0.98) would be prone to be tested more often. Ease of self-collected sampling is not associated with age, gender, educational level or poverty. Conclusions: Chile currently does not have sexually transmitted infections surveillance or screening programs for youth and adolescents. Given self-collected sampling´s good acceptability, it could be successfully used when these programs are implemented.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Chile
KW - Sexually transmitted infections
KW - Urine specimen collection
KW - Vaginal sampling
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