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Home-based specimen collection is effective in the context of cervical cancer screening (JW Womens Health Apr 15 2010). Now, in a substudy of a larger project on contraceptive choices, investigators assessed preferences and rates of screening for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in 403 women in the Saint Louis area (mean age, 25). Participants were offered a choice of home-based or clinic-based collection of vaginal specimens to be tested for Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Clinic-based collection was at family planning clinics or with women's usual providers. In telephone surveys conducted six months later, women were asked whether they had completed the screening tests.
In all, 57% of participants had completed scree…