ArticleBMC public health2010
Young women's decisions to accept chlamydia screening: influences of stigma and doctor-patient interactions.
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- Understanding access to sexual and reproductive health in general practice using an adapted Candidacy Framework: a systematic review and qualitative evidence synthesis.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2025Pooled it
- Recommendation on screening for chlamydia and gonorrhea in primary care for individuals not known to be at high risk.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2021Guideline
- Screening for chlamydia and/or gonorrhea in primary health care: systematic reviews on effectiveness and patient preferences.Systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Application of the COM-B model to barriers and facilitators to chlamydia testing in general practice for young people and primary care practitioners: a systematic review.Implementation science : IS · 2018Pooled it
- The National Advisory Committee on Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections (NAC-STBBI) Statement: Chlamydia and Gonorrhea screening recommendations for non-pregnant adults and adolescents.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2026Article
- General practice chlamydia testing: a qualitative study of staff approaches using behavioural change theory.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2025Article
- Shifting Grounds-Facilitating Self-Care in Testing for Sexually Transmitted Infections Through the Use of Self-Test Technology: Qualitative Study.Journal of participatory medicine · 2024Article
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- De-Sexualizing Partner Notification: A Qualitative Study on Chinese Young Adults with Chlamydia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Understanding the attitudes and acceptability of extra-genital Chlamydia testing in young women: evaluation of a feasibility study.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Sexual activity and sexual health among young adults with and without mild/moderate intellectual disability.BMC public health · 2018Article
- A Qualitative Analysis of Adolescent and Caregiver Acceptability of Universally Offered Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Screening in the Pediatric Emergency Department.Annals of emergency medicine · 2017Article
- Repeat testing for chlamydia trachomatis, a "safe approach" to unsafe sex? a qualitative exploration among youth in Stockholm.BMC health services research · 2017Article
- Preliminary investigation of the STBBI Stigma Scale: Description and pilot results.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2017Article
- Barriers to sexually transmitted infection testing in New Zealand: a qualitative study.Australian and New Zealand journal of public health · 2017Article
- Exploring access and attitudes to regular sexually transmitted infection screening: the views of young, multi-ethnic, inner-city, female students.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2016Article
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- Chlamydia trachomatis testing among young people: what is the role of stigma?BMC public health · 2015Article
- Do Australian general practitioners believe practice nurses can take a role in chlamydia testing? A qualitative study of attitudes and opinions.BMC infectious diseases · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundAn understanding of the factors that encourage young women to accept, and discourage them from accepting, STI (sexually transmitted infection) testing is needed to underpin opportunistic screening programs for the STI Chlamydia trachomatis (opportunistic screening involves healthcare professionals offering chlamydia tests to people while they are attending health services for reasons that are usually unrelated to their sexual health). We conducted a qualitative study to identify and explore: how young women would feel about being offered opportunistic tests for chlamydia?; how young women would like to be offered screening, and who they wanted to be offered screening by?; and what factors would influence young women's partner notification preferences for chlamydia (who they would notify in the event of a positive diagnosis of chlamydia, how they would want to do this).
methodsSemi-structured interviews with 35 young women between eighteen and twenty nine years of age. The study was conducted in the Dublin and Galway regions of the Republic of Ireland. Young adults were recruited from General Practice (GP) practices, Third Level College health services, Family Planning clinics and specialist STI treatment services.
resultsRespondents were worried that their identities would become stigmatised if they accepted screening. Younger respondents and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds had the greatest stigma-related concerns. Most respondents indicated that they would accept screening if it was offered to them, however; accepting screening was seen as a correct, responsible action to engage in. Respondents wanted to be offered screening by younger female healthcare professionals. Respondents were willing to inform their current partners about positive chlamydia diagnoses, but were more ambivalent about informing their previous partners.
conclusionsIf an effort is not put into reducing young women's stigma-related concerns the population coverage of Chlamydia screening might be reduced.
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