Variations in the prevalence of sexual health outcomes by paying for sex in the past 5 years
| No paid sex | Paid for sex, past 5 years | Univariable logistic regression | Multivariable logistic regression | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unweighted, weighted denominators | 5872, 7004 | 236, 261 | ||||||||
| Per cent | 95% CI | Per cent | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | p Value | AOR* | 95% CI | p Value | |
| Low sexual function, past year† | 0.0016 | 0.0037 | ||||||||
| No | 80.4 | (79.1 to 81.8) | 69.6 | (61.6 to 76.5) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | 19.6 | (18.2 to 20.9) | 30.4 | (23.5 to 38.4) | 1.80 | (1.25 to 2.59) | 1.81 | (1.21 to 2.69) | ||
| Sexual health clinic attendance‡ | <0.0001 | 0.0166 | ||||||||
| No | 89.2 | (88.3 to 90.0) | 69.8 | (62.2 to 76.4) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | 10.8 | (10.0 to 11.7) | 30.2 | (23.6 to 37.8) | 3.58 | (2.52 to 5.07) | 1.69 | (1.10 to 2.58) | ||
| HIV test‡ | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | ||||||||
| No | 89.5 | (88.5 to 90.4) | 65.6 | (57.6 to 72.8) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | 10.5 | (9.6 to 11.5) | 34.4 | (27.2 to 42.4) | 4.49 | (3.15 to 6.39) | 2.20 | (1.53 to 3.17) | ||
| STI diagnosis/es‡,§ | <0.0001 | 0.0007 | ||||||||
| No | 96.9 | (96.4 to 97.3) | 83.6 | (77.4 to 88.3) | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | 3.1 | (2.7 to 3.6) | 16.4 | (11.7 to 22.6) | 6.07 | (3.93 to 9.38) | 2.34 | (1.44 to 3.81) | ||
*ORs for paying for sex are adjusted for age (continuous), ‘relationship status at interview’, ‘NS-SEC code’, ‘resident in Greater London’, ‘quintiles of multiple deprivation’, and ‘number of sexual partners, past 5 years’.
†Sexual function score calculated using the Natsal-SF17 ,18 only for the population who were sexually active in the past year.
‡In the past 5 years.
§STIs include genital warts, trichomonas, gonorrhoea, chlamydia, syphilis, non-specific or non-gonococcal urethritis and pelvic inflammatory disease.
AOR, adjusted OR; NS-SEC, National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification; STI, sexually transmitted infection.