Open AccessFactors Associated With New Sexual Partnerships During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey of Online Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing Platform Users
Author(s) -
Matthew M Hamill,
Tong Yu,
Gretchen Armington,
YuHsiang Hsieh,
Yukari C. Manabe,
Johan H. Melendez
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
sexually transmitted diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.507
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1537-4521
pISSN - 0148-5717
DOI - 10.1097/olq.0000000000001675
Subject(s) - medicine , demography , pandemic , confidence interval , odds ratio , logistic regression , descriptive statistics , condom , population , odds , national survey of family growth , family medicine , covid-19 , environmental health , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , family planning , statistics , mathematics , disease , syphilis , sociology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , research methodology
The COVID-19 pandemic has coincided with an explosion of online platforms for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) testing using self-collected, mail-in specimens. Reports on the effect of COVID-19-associated restrictions on sexual behaviors have been mixed, but STI transmissions have continued during the pandemic. We sought to understand the pandemic impact on sexual habits associated with STIs among IWantTheKit users.