Exploring the sexual histories of older GUM clinic attenders.

摘要: Little is known either of the factors motivating clinic attendance in later life, or sexual health histories older attenders. A self-administered questionnaire study linked to patient note data aiming explore these issues was undertaken within 3 genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics Trent region. Participants comprised 224 individuals aged 50 years and attending during period. The majority participants were with a suspected sexually transmitted infection (STI) (n = 145, 64.7%) approximately half 119, 53.1%) firsttime GUM Data available for recruited from Sheffield indicated that, although reported having had only one partner last 12 months, significant minority considerably higher numbers partners, including those classed 'higher risk' STI acquisition. These indicate that people engage behav...