Sexual Contact Patterns in High-Income Countries-A Comparative Analysis Using Data From Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

ABSTRACT: Sexual contact patterns determine the spread of sexually transmitted infections and are a central input parameter for mathematical models in this field. We evaluated the importance of country-specific sexual contact pattern parametrization for high-income countries with similar cultural backgrounds by comparing data from two independent studies (HaBIDS and SBG) in Germany, a country without systematic sexual contact pattern data, with data from the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal) in the UK, and the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) in the US, the two longest running sexual contact studies in high-income countries. We investigated differences in the distribution of the reported number of opposite-sex partners, same-sex partners and both-sex partners using w

SUBMITTER: Tomori DV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10911028 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature