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