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- Title
Who Gets STDs?
- Authors
Klitsch, Michael
- Abstract
This article focuses on sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S. White women and higher income women are probably underrepresented in estimates of sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevalence derived from surveillance systems. Researchers examined self-reported data on STD infection among 8,450 women who participated in the National Survey of Family Growth in 1988. The survey data indicate that 56 percent of women who had ever had gonorrhea were white, while 32 percent were African American and 13 percent were Hispanic or of some other racial or ethnic group. A logistic regression analysis of the survey data revealed that when background factors were controlled, African American women were 2.4 times as likely as white women to report having ever been infected with gonorrhea. The investigators comment that though they cannot rule out other explanations because of basic differences in the statistics being compared, their results suggest that the surveillance data may reflect under-reporting of higher socioeconomic groups making use of private health care.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SEXUALLY transmitted diseases; WOMEN'S health; LOGISTIC regression analysis; GONORRHEA; REGRESSION analysis
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1995, Vol 27, Issue 2, p52
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article