RESEARCH ARTICLE
Acceptability and Opportunity for Chlamydia Screening in Acute Care
Kathleen Tebb*, Mary-Ann Shafer, Fay Chang, Emily Rosenfeld, Rosanna M. Sansone, Ralph Gonzales
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2011Volume: 4
First Page: 6
Last Page: 9
Publisher ID: TOPHJ-4-6
DOI: 10.2174/1874944501004011006
Article History:
Received Date: 08/01/2011Revision Received Date: 19/03/2011
Acceptance Date: 20/04/2011
Electronic publication date: 16/5/2011
Collection year: 2011
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
This study examined the acceptability of Chlamydia trachomatis screening among 138 young women in a university-based urgent care setting and the extent to which the urgent care setting represents a missed-opportunity for screening at-risk women. Most women (86%) in need of a chlamydial test found it acceptable to be screened at their urgent care visit – even though their visit was unrelated to a reproductive health issue. Women who were in need of a chlamydial test were significantly less likely to have a primary-care provider than those who were up-to-date (41% vs. 24%, respectively; X=4.2, df=1, p=0.04). This study found chlamydial screening acceptable to young women who are being seen for non-reproductive related health visits in the urgent care setting. Implementing such efforts in urgent care settings can successfully reach a substantial proportion of at risk women who would otherwise not be screened for chlamydial.
