Characteristics of MSW clients undergoing regular testing (regular) and extended oral testing (pilot)
| Characteristics | Overall n (%) | Regular n (%) | Pilot n (%) | P value regular versus pilot |
| Total | 560 (100.0) | 138 (100.0) | 422 (100.0) | |
| Age | 0.278 | |||
| Mean (SD) | 26.6 (7.8) | 27.3 (9.3) | 26.4 (7.3) | |
| Median (min, max) | 24.0 (17.0, 70.0) | 24.0 (17.0, 70.0) | 24.0 (17.0, 66.0) | |
| Age category | 0.820 | |||
| <25 years | 307 (54.8) | 74 (53.6) | 233 (55.2) | |
| 25 years and older | 253 (45.2) | 64 (46.4) | 189 (44.8) | |
| Non-western migratory background | 0.142 | |||
| Yes, first generation | 108 (19.3) | 34 (24.6) | 74 (17.5) | |
| Yes, second generation | 143 (25.5) | 36 (26.1) | 107 (25.4) | |
| No | 309 (55.2) | 68 (49.3) | 241 (57.1) | |
| Educational level* | 0.241 | |||
| Low | 56 (10.0) | 18 (13.0) | 38 (9.0) | |
| Middle | 179 (32.0) | 48 (34.8) | 131 (31.0) | |
| High | 306 (54.6) | 66 (47.8) | 240 (56.9) | |
| Other/unknown | 19 (3.4) | 6 (4.3) | 13 (3.1) | |
| Notified for any STI | 189 (33.8) | 43 (31.2) | 146 (34.6) | 0.524 |
| Notified for chlamydia | 144 (25.7) | 36 (26.1) | 108 (25.6) | 0.997 |
| Notified for gonorrhoea | 19 (3.4) | 4 (2.9) | 15 (3.6) | 0.921 |
| Any STI-related complaints | 195 (34.8) | 47 (34.1) | 148 (35.1) | 0.909 |
| Number of sex partners in the last 6 months | 0.898 | |||
| 0 | 6 (1.1) | 1 (0.7) | 5 (1.2) | |
| 1 | 122 (21.8) | 28 (20.3) | 94 (22.3) | |
| 2 | 102 (18.2) | 22 (15.9) | 80 (19.0) | |
| 3–5 | 219 (39.1) | 60 (43.5) | 159 (37.7) | |
| 6–10 | 96 (17.1) | 24 (17.4) | 72 (17.1) | |
| ≥10 | 14 (2.5) | 3 (2.2) | 11 (2.6) | |
| Unknown | 1 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.2) | |
| Sex worker | 3 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (0.7) | 0.748 |
| Urogenital gonorrhoea test | 560 (100) | 138 (100) | 422 (100) | 1.000 |
| Anorectal gonorrhoea test | 5 (0.9) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (1.2) | 0.445 |
| Oropharyngeal gonorrhoea test | 422 (75.4) | 0 (0.0) | 422 (100) | <0.001 |
*Educational level: Low—no education, elementary school, (pre-)vocational education. Middle—senior secondary education, pre-university education. High—university of applied sciences, university.
max, maximum; min, minimum; MSW, men who have sex with women; SD, standard deviation; STI, sexually transmitted infection.