Table 2.
Preferred location to seek diagnosis or treatment for a suspected STI (hypothetical) among 16–44 year olds reporting unsafe sex within the past year, by sex and SHC attendance
| Men | Women | |||||||
| SHC attendance | SHC attendance | |||||||
| Within the last year | Attended but not within the last year | Never attended | Total | Within the last year | Attended but not within the last year | Never attended | Total | |
| 15.6% | 20.5% | 63.9% | 100.0% | 22.8% | 23.7% | 53.4% | 100.0% | |
| (13.1% to 18.5%) | (17.4% to 24.0%) | (59.7% to 67.8%) | (19.9% to 26.0%) | (21.0% to 26.7%) | (49.9% to 56.9%) | |||
| Place would first go to seek diagnosis/treatment for a suspected STI | ||||||||
| General practice surgery | 22.0% | 26.0% | 65.1% | 50.4% | 16.5% | 38.7% | 77.1% | 54.1% |
| (15.7% to 29.9%) | (19.3% to 34.1%) | (59.8% to 70.1%) | (46.1% to 54.6%) | (11.8% to 22.7%) | (32.3% to 45.6%) | (72.6% to 81.0%) | (50.6% to 57.6%) | |
| Sexual health clinic (GUM clinic) | 75.3% | 70.3% | 26.2% | 42.9% | 77.3% | 55.2% | 13.5% | 38.0% |
| (67.1% to 82.0%) | (62.1% to 77.4%) | (21.8% to 31.2%) | (38.7% to 47.2%) | (70.7% to 82.9%) | (48.4% to 61.9%) | (10.2% to 17.6%) | (34.5% to 41.6%) | |
| Retail/other* | 0.3% | 1.5% | 4.7% | 3.3% | 0.5% | 1.1% | 1.8% | 1.3% |
| (0.0% to 1.9%) | (0.5% to 4.8%) | (2.7% to 8.1%) | (2.0% to 5.6%) | (0.1% to 3.4%) | (0.3% to 3.5%) | (0.9% to 3.6%) | (0.7% to 2.4%) | |
| Community clinic and other medical† | 2.5% | 2.1% | 4.0% | 3.4% | 5.6% | 4.9% | 7.7% | 6.6% |
| (0.9% to 6.5%) | (0.8% to 5.7%) | (2.4% to 6.6%) | (2.2% to 5.1%) | (3.3% to 9.5%) | (2.7% to 8.9%) | (5.6% to 10.3%) | (5.1% to 8.4%) | |
| Denominators | ||||||||
| Unweighted | 139 | 167 | 454 | 760 | 260 | 266 | 546 | 1072 |
| Weighted | 102 | 134 | 418 | 655 | 142 | 148 | 333 | 623 |
*Retail includes: internet site offering treatment (1.3% men, 0.7% women), pharmacy/chemist (0.6% men, 0.2% women) as well as ‘somewhere else’ (1.5% men, 0.4% women).
†Community clinic and other medical includes: NHS FP clinic/contraceptive clinic/reproductive health clinic (2.0% men, 4.5% women), NHS antenatal clinic/midwife (0.4% men, 0.4% women), private non-NHS clinic or doctor (0.1% men, 0.8% women), youth advisory clinic, for example, Brook Clinic (0.3% men, 0.9% women) and hospital accident and emergency A&E department (0.6% men, 0.0% women).
GUM, genitourinary medicine, SHC, sexual health clinic.