Table 2.
Distal outcome variables
| Outcome variables | Women (n = 1378) (% of column) |
Men (n = 1436) (% of column) |
Total study population (N = 2814) N (% of column) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short-term testing outcome: Chlamydia testing during the past 12 months | |||
| - Yes | 715 (51.9) | 494 (34.4) | 1209 (42.9) |
| - No | 534 (38.8) | 642 (44.7) | 1176 (41.8) |
| - Don’t remember and missing informationa | 129 (9.4) | 300 (20.9) | 429 (15.2) |
| Long-term testing outcome: Lifetime testing for chlamydia | |||
| - Never | 103 (7.5) | 350 (24.4) | 453 (16.1) |
| - 1-3 times | 875 (63.5) | 862 (60.0) | 1737 (61.7) |
| - ≥4 times | 375 (27.2) | 198 (13.8) | 573 (20.4) |
| - Don’t remember and missing informationa | 25 (1.8) | 26 (1.8) | 51 (1.8) |
| Short-term infection outcome: Present laboratory verified chlamydia infection | |||
| - Yes | 122 (8.8) | 181 (12.6) | 303 (10.8) |
| - No | 1256 (91.2) | 1255 (87.4) | 2511 (89.2) |
| Long-term infection outcome: Self-reported lifetime chlamydia infection | |||
| - Never | 805 (58.4) | 712 (49.6) | 1517 (53.9) |
| - Once | 370 (26.9) | 317 (22.1) | 687 (24.4) |
| - ≥2 times | 110 (8.0) | 92 (6.4) | 202 (7.2) |
| - Missing information and don’t remembera | 93 (6.8) | 315 (21.9) | 408 (14.5) |
| Age group (considered as confounder) | |||
| - 20–24 | 465 (33.7) | 367 (25.6) | 832 (29.6) |
| - 25-29 | 583 (42.3) | 626 (43.6) | 1209 (42.9) |
| - 30-34 | 219 (15.9) | 304 (21.2) | 523 (18.6) |
| - 35-40 | 111 (8.1) | 139 (9.7) | 250 (8.9) |
a Categories “Missing information and don’t remember” were collapsed and excluded from the latent class analysis