Table 3.

Healthcare seeking among women with vulvodynia^* age 18 to 40 years from two geographical locations: Number and adjusted^† proportions

	All Cases n (%) [95%CI]	Twin Cities (MSP) n (%) [95% CI]	Boston (BMA) n (%) [95%CI]
Sought treatment⋄	586 (56.5) [53.5, 59.4]	405 (52.0) [48.5, 55.5]	181 (70.0) [64.3, 75.6]
Clinicians seen**‡
1 or 2	329 (59.0) [55.0, 63.0]	241 (62.7) [58.0, 67.50]	88 (50.8) [43.5, 58.1]
3 or 4	129 (23.1) [19.7, 26.6]	70 (18.6) [14.6, 22.5]	59 (32.8) [25.8, 39.8]
5 or more	101 (17.9) [14.8, 21.0]	70 (18.7) [14.8. 22.6]	31 (16.4) [11.0, 21.8]
Diagnosis**	264 (48.0) [44.0, 52.0]	148 (39.0) [34.1, 43.9]	116 (67.4) [60.5, 74.4]

^*Defined as pain on contact in the last 6 months that limited or prevented intercourse

^†Adjusted for age at time of survey, race, and length of time suffering from vulvodynia

^⋄Risk Difference for sought treatment (Boston versus Twin Cities) was 18 (95%CI=11.3, 24.6)

^**Only among women who sought treatment

^‡24 women from the Twin Cities and 3 women from Boston who failed to provide number of clinicians seen or were missing key covariate information are not included in the analysis