Differential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on chlamydia and gonorrhoea cases among youth and young adults in Canada: an interrupted time series analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Globally, access to sexual health services declined during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Canada, pre-existing provincial differences in the organisation and delivery of sexual health services may have influenced how the pandemic affected testing and case detection. This study assessed the immediate and sustained impacts of the pandemic on reported chlamydia and gonorrhoea cases among youth and young adults in Ontario and British Columbia.

Method

Laboratory-confirmed cases of chlamydia and gonorrhoea among individuals aged under 25 years were analysed using data from provincial surveillance sources from 2016 to 2021. Interrupted time series analyses were conducted using seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average models, stratified by sex and province. Sensitiv

SUBMITTER: Khandakar F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12684192 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature