TABLE 2.

Percentage of respondents willing to use a home-based test for STDs, by selected characteristics; and odds ratios (and 95% confidence intervals) from multivariate logistic regression analyses assessing associations between characteristics and willingness—all according to gender

Characteristic	Men		Women
	%	Odds ratio	%	Odds ratio
All	81	na	68	na
Sexual identity
Gay/lesbian	85	1.98 (1.16–3.40)*	70	na
Bisexual (ref)	71	1.00	67	na
Age
18–21 (ref)	74	1.00	69	na
22–26	84	1.41 (0.76–2.63)	67	na
Education
<college (ref)	71	1.00	69	na
Some college	79	1.29 (0.63–2.61)	68	na
≥college	87	1.33 (0.61–2.91)	67	na
Employment status
Employed (ref)	87	1.00	66	1.00
Not employed	71	0.58 (0.26–1.29)	63	0.91 (0.56–1.46)
In school	76	0.44 (0.24–0.85)*	73	1.47 (0.95–2.27)
Region
East (ref)	83	na	66	1.00
Midwest	78	na	59	0.72 (0.44–1.19)
South	80	na	75	1.47 (0.88–2.45)
West	83	na	70	1.16 (0.69–1.95)
Health insurance status
Not insured (ref)	71	1.00	75	na
Insured through work/school	84	1.32 (0.65–2.68)	70	na
Insured through parent’s plan	83	2.22 (1.09–4.49)*	65	na
No. of sexual partners in past year†
0–1 (ref)	74	1.00	64	1.00
≥2	89	2.04 (1.17–3.57)*	79	1.59 (1.05–2.40)*

^*p<.05.

^†Among sexually experienced respondents.

Notes: All characteristics shown in Table 1 were included in bivariate regression analyses; for each gender, only those variables with an association at p<.10 were included in a multivariate model and are shown here. ref=reference group. na=not applicable, because variable was not included.