Table 1.
Oral HPV detection, by demographic, behavioral and sexual characteristics of 922 vaccine-eligible young men who have sex with men — Young Men’s HPV Study, 2012–2014
| Characteristic | Participants N* |
Any oral HPV detected n (%) |
p-value** |
|---|---|---|---|
|
| |||
| Total | 922 | 87 (9.4%) | |
|
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| Age (years) | |||
| 18–21 | 245 | 24 (9.8) | 0.8 |
| 22–26 | 677 | 63 (9.3) | |
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| Race/ethnicity | |||
| Non-Hispanic white | 221 | 19 (8.6) | 0.1 |
| Non-Hispanic black | 175 | 26 (14.9) | |
| Non-Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander | 76 | 5 (6.6) | |
| Hispanic | 352 | 29 (8.2) | |
| Other | 98 | 8 (8.2) | |
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| City | |||
| Chicago | 283 | 31 (11.0) | 0.3 |
| Los Angeles | 639 | 56 (8.8) | |
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| Education | |||
| Up to high school only | 422 | 39 (9.2) | 0.08 |
| Some college or higher | 444 | 38 (8.6) | |
| Other | 56 | 10 (17.9) | |
|
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| Current health insurance | |||
| No | 362 | 35 (9.7) | 0.8 |
| Yes | 469 | 42 (9.0) | |
| Don’t know/unsure | 91 | 10 (11.0) | |
|
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| Smoking cigarettes | |||
| No | 259 | 19 (7.3) | 0.08 |
| Yes, ≤12 cigarettes in past year | 276 | 21 (7.6) | |
| Yes, >12 cigarettes in past year | 340 | 40 (11.8) | |
| Unsure | 44 | 7 (15.9) | |
|
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| Marijuana use | |||
| No | 189 | 14 (7.4) | 0.2 |
| Yes, ≤12 times in past year | 304 | 35 (11.5) | |
| Yes, >12 times in past year | 360 | 29 (8.1) | |
| Unsure | 66 | 9 (13.6) | |
|
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| Gender identity | |||
| Male | 853 | 81 (9.5) | 0.9 |
| Transgender female | 45 | 4 (8.9) | |
| Other | 24 | 2 (8.3) | |
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| Sexual orientation | |||
| Heterosexual or straight | 26 | 3 (11.5) | 0.6 |
| Homosexual or gay | 643 | 63 (9.8) | |
| Bisexual | 199 | 15 (7.5) | |
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| Self-reported recent HIV test results | |||
| Not Positive | 834 | 70 (8.4) | 0.0009 |
| Positive | 88 | 17 (19.3) | |
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| Ever had sex with someone born male | |||
| No | 16 | 1 (6.3) | 0.7 |
| Yes | 901 | 85 (9.4) | |
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| Ever had sex with someone born female | |||
| No | 515 | 43 (8.4) | 0.2 |
| Yes | 392 | 41 (10.5) | |
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| Age at first sex (years) | |||
| ≤18 | 680 | 75 (11.0) | 0.004 |
| >18 | 194 | 8 (4.1) | |
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| Number of lifetime sex partners | |||
| ≤20 | 468 | 34 (7.3) | 0.02 |
| >20 | 454 | 53 (11.7) | |
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| Number of male partners, last 3 months | |||
| ≤5 | 617 | 49 (7.9) | 0.01 |
| >5 | 175 | 25 (14.3) | |
|
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| Number of female partners, last 3 months | |||
| ≤5 | 320 | 29 (9.1) | 0.9 |
| >5 | 12 | 1 (8.3) | |
|
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| Number of any sex partners, last 1 month | |||
| ≤5 | 662 | 53 (8.0) | 0.005 |
| >5 | 117 | 19 (16.2) | |
|
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| Number of partners performed oral sex on, last 3 months | |||
| ≤5 | 661 | 54 (8.2) | 0.01 |
| >5 | 139 | 21 (15.1) | |
|
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| Times performed oral sex with male partner, last 3 months | |||
| ≤5 | 409 | 29 (7.1) | 0.02 |
| >5 | 267 | 33 (12.4) | |
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| Most recent time performed oral sex on a male partner | |||
| <48 hours | 211 | 27 (12.8) | 0.5 |
| 2–7 days | 244 | 23 (9.4) | |
| 1 week–1 month | 187 | 15 (8.0) | |
| >1 month ago | 157 | 11 (7.0) | |
| Never | 40 | 3 (7.5) | |
| Don’t know | 61 | 6 (9.8) | |
*
Numbers do not always sum to total due to skip patterns or participant non-response
**
p-values <0.05 are bolded