Among 231 men who enrolled and reported that they have sex with men, we collected behavioral data using a combination of interviewer and self-administered surveys and extracted STI data from electronic health records. We used modified Poisson regression to examine the unadjusted and adjusted associations between group sex participation and prevalent STI.
- One-quarter of participants reported group sex participation in the last 3 months.
- 18% of participants had gonorrhea and 19% had chlamydial infection.
- Men who reported recent group sex were more likely
- to be HIV-positive,
- to report recent drug use, and
- to report unprotected receptive anal intercourse in the past 3 months.
- After adjustment for age, race, and recent drug use, recent participation in group sex was associated with prevalent gonorrhea infection but not chlamydia infection.
We performed a sensitivity analysis in which we also adjusted for unprotected receptive anal intercourse and the results were not substantively changed.
In summary, participation in group sex in the past 3 months was associated with a more than twofold increased prevalence of gonorrhea, but not with chlamydia. These findings support group sex participation as a potential contributor to increased STI prevalence.
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- 1Division of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, N1144 Doan Hall, 410 West 10th Ave., Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
- 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
- 3Division of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, N1144 Doan Hall, 410 West 10th Ave., Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.
- 4Division of Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
- 5Sexual Health Clinic, Columbus Public Health, Columbus, OH, USA.
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