Help-seeking for genitourinary symptoms: a mixed methods study from Britain's Third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3).

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Quantify non-attendance at sexual health clinics and explore help-seeking strategies for genitourinary symptoms.

Design

Sequential mixed methods using survey data and semistructured interviews.

Setting

General population in Britain.

Participants

1403 participants (1182 women) from Britain's Third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3; undertaken 2010-2012), aged 16-44 years who experienced specific genitourinary symptoms (past 4 weeks), of whom 27 (16 women) who reported they had never attended a sexual health clinic also participated in semistructured interviews, conducted May 2014-March 2015.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

From survey data, non-attendance at sexual health clinic (past year) and preferred servic

SUBMITTER: Mapp F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6830646 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature