Influence of Insurance Status and Demographic Features on Recognition of Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Gonorrhea Cases

Sex Transm Dis. 2015 Aug;42(8):419-21. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000308.

Abstract

A random sample of individuals diagnosed as having gonorrhea from 2009 to 2013 were interviewed. Demographic and clinical features for asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals were examined to elucidate trends in medical care. Age, race, and sexually transmitted disease history had no association with the absence of symptoms (e.g., infection found by screening), whereas insurance coverage did for women.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Age Distribution
  • Black or African American
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.
  • Female
  • Gonorrhea / diagnosis*
  • Gonorrhea / epidemiology
  • Hispanic or Latino
  • Humans
  • Insurance Coverage*
  • Male
  • Mass Screening*
  • Neisseria gonorrhoeae / isolation & purification*
  • Patient Acceptance of Health Care / statistics & numerical data*
  • Philadelphia / epidemiology
  • Prevalence
  • Random Allocation
  • Risk Factors
  • Sex Distribution
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • United States / epidemiology
  • White People