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. 2017 Feb 24;12(2):e0171856. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171856

Table 1. Demographic characteristics among 52 selected participants stratified according to their sexual activity category at enrolment.

Sexual activity category at enrolment
no sexual activity non-coital sexual activities onlya penile-vaginal sex Total
N = 19 N = 19 N = 14 N = 52
n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%) p value
Age [mean(±SD)] [19.2 (1.1)] [19.4 (1.1)] [20.2 (1.2)] [19.5 (1.2)] 0.043b
Smoker 0 1 (5.3) 1 (7.1) 2 (3.9) 0.728c
Practices douching 3 (15.8) 2 (10.5) 0 5 (9.6) 0.417c
Current OCP use 4 (21.1) 0 10 (71.4) 14 (26.9) <0.001c
Ethnicity
Caucasian 7(36.8) 11 (57.9) 11 (78.6) 29 (55.8) 0.057d
Central & South-East Asiane 12 (63.2) 5 (26.3) 2 (14.3) 19 (36.5) 0.012d
Indian/Sri-Lankan 0 3 (15.8) 1 (7.1) 4 (7.7) 0.184d

All variables are self-reported. Key: SD = standard deviation, OCP = oral contraceptive pill.

adigital or receptive oral sex

banalysis of variance (ANOVA) of age by sexual activity category

cFisher’s exact or Chi-squared analysis across all three sexual activity categories

dChi-squared analysis comparing each ethnicity with the other two across all sexual activity categories

ecomprises women of Chinese, Malay and Vietnamese ethnicities. The larger FUSS cohort consisted of N = 413 participants.