Annual STI Testing Among Sexually Active Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

National guidelines call for annual testing for certain sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among specific adolescent populations, yet we have limited population-based data on STI testing prevalence among adolescents. With inclusion of a new item in the 2019 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey, we provide generalizable estimates of annual STI testing among sexually active high school students.

Methods

We report weighted prevalence estimates of STI testing (other than HIV) in the past 12 months among sexually active students (n = 2501) and bivariate associations between testing and demographic characteristics (sex, age, race and ethnicity, sexual identity, and sex of sexual contact). Multivariable models stratified by sex and adjusted for demographics examine th

SUBMITTER: Liddon N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9126309 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature