Table 2. Comparison of sexual behaviour reported in the CD and clinic-based interview during the 7 days before clinical review.

Sexual Behaviour during 7 days before clinical review		Coital Diary	Clinic questionnaire
Number of women		56	56
Number of women with no sex acts		11	11
Number of sex acts reported		223	114
Median number of sex acts reported per woman		4	2	p=0.002
% of women reporting placebo gel use *	always	40.0%	84.4%	p<0.001**
	sometimes	44.4%	11.1%
	never	15.6%	4.4%
Number of sex acts with reported gel use		134 (60.1%)	103 (90.4%)	p<0.001***
% of women reporting condom use *	always	35.6%	44.4%	p=0.29**
	Sometimes	26.7%	11.1%
	Never	37.8%	44.4%
Number of sex acts with reported condom use		118 (52.9%)	60 (52.6%)	p=0.99***
% of women reporting vaginal washing *	always	55.6%	97.8%	p<0.001**
	sometimes	37.8%	2.2%
	never	6.7%	0.0%
Number of sex acts with reported vaginal washing		165 (74.0%)	113 (99.1%)	p<0.001***
% of women reporting sex with regular partner*	always	73.3%	88.9 %	p=0.11**
	sometimes	17.8%	8.9%
	never	8.9%	2.2%
Number of sex acts reported with regular partner		191 (85.7%)	104 (91.2%)	p=0.15***
% of women reporting vaginal insertion (non-gel)*	never	100%	100%

^*excludes women who did not report any sex acts on specified data collection method

^**paired comparison of always v. not always in 40 women who reported at least 1 sex act on both data collection methods

^***comparison of proportion of acts with specified feature (e.g. gel use) reported per-woman using sign test