Relationship between disclosure of same-sex sexual activity to providers, HIV diagnosis and sexual health services for men who have sex with men in Vancouver, Canada
Autor: | Warren Michelow, Steve Kanters, David M. Moore, Brian E. Ng, Meaghan Thumath, Marissa McGuire, Mark Gilbert, Wayne Robert, Robert S. Hogg, Reka Gustafson |
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Adult
Male Canada medicine.medical_specialty Sexual Behavior media_common.quotation_subject Gonorrhea HIV Infections Disclosure Health Services Accessibility Men who have sex with men Young Adult Risk-Taking Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Homosexuality Homosexuality Male Reproductive health media_common Gynecology Physician-Patient Relations business.industry Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine Odds ratio medicine.disease Cross-Sectional Studies Logistic Models Socioeconomic Factors Multivariate Analysis Reproductive Health Services Syphilis Quantitative Research business Serostatus Demography |
Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
Popis: | OBJECTIVES: Men who have sex with men (MSM) report challenges to accessing appropriate health care. We sought to understand the relationship between disclosure of same-sex sexual activity to a health care practitioner (HCP), sexual behaviour and measures of sexual health care. METHODS: Participants recruited through community venues and events completed a questionnaire and provided a blood sample. This analysis includes only individuals with self-reported HIV negative or unknown serostatus. We compared participants who had disclosed having same-sex partners with those who had not using chi-square, Wilcoxon Rank Sum and Fisher’s exact tests and used logistic regression to examine those variables associated with receiving an HIV test. RESULTS: Participants who had disclosed were more likely to have a higher level of education (p |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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