An evaluation of an online STI service across London: reviewing uptake, utility and outcomes over a 4-year period.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Since 2018, Sexual Health London (SHL) has provided remote sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing services to London residents over 16 years of age. SHL was an asymptomatic screening service. In 2020, SHL widened access to non-urgent symptomatic testing. We undertook a 4-year evaluation on the uptake of SHL's online testing pathway and outcomes, including the association of positive chlamydia and gonorrhoea nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) outcomes with user demographics and user utility.

Methods

This is a retrospective data analysis of routine SHL clinical data from 8 January 2018 to 31 March 2022 of all STI test kit orders, focusing on HIV, chlamydia and gonorrhoea outcomes. Descriptive analysis on uptake of each stage of SHL's clinical care pathway

SUBMITTER: Tittle V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11877036 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature