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Table 3 Preferred method of receiving home test kits by age group, risk group and living arrangements

From: The acceptability and cost of a home-based chlamydia retesting strategy: findings from the REACT randomised controlled trial

  

Prefer mail

Prefer to collect

Total

p-valuea

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Study arm

Home

129 (91.5)

12 (8.5)

141 (100)

 

Age group

≤25

54 (41.9)

5 (41.7)

59 (41.8)

0.632

 

>25

73 (56.6)

7 (58.3)

80 (56.7)

Risk group

Women

47 (36.4)

5 (41.7)

52 (36.9)

0.469

 

Heterosexual men

38 (29.5)

5 (41.7)

43 (30.5)

 

MSM

44 (34.1)

2 (16.7)

46 (32.6)

Who they live with?

Friends/flatmates

70 (54.3)

5 (41.7)

75 (53.2)

0.409

 

Alone

27 (20.9)

1 (8.3)

28 (19.9)

 

Partner

15 (11.6)

4 (33.3)

19 (13.5)

 

Parents

13 (10.1)

2 (16.7)

15 (10.6)

 

Other

4 (3.1)

0 (0.0)

4 (2.8)

  1. MSM men who have sex with men
  2. aChi2 or Fisher’s exact test was used when appropriate