The state of sexual health services at U.S. Colleges and Universities

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• Journal Article:
  J Am Coll Health
• Personal Author:
  Habel, Melissa A. ; Coor, Alexandra ; Beltran, Oscar ; Becasen, Jeffrey ; Pearson, William S. ; Dittus, Patricia
• Description:
  Objective ; To describe the array of sexual health care services provided at US colleges and universities. ; Participants ; During 2014–2015, 885 colleges were surveyed about their provision of sexual health services. ; Methods ; 55% of colleges responded. Data were weighted and stratified by minority-serving institutions (MSIs), 2-year and 4-year institutions. ; Results ; 70.6% of colleges reported having a health center (HC), of which 73.0% offered STI diagnosis/treatment (4 years vs. 2 years; 77.9% vs. 53.1%) and contraceptive services (70.1% vs. 46.4%), all p < .001. HCs less frequently offered LARC (19.7%), express STI testing (24.4%) and self-collection (31.4%). Condoms were available on 66.8% of campuses. HPV vaccination was available at more 4-year colleges (73.7% vs. 48.5%, p < .003) and non-MSIs (74.4% vs. 58.5, p = .019). Regarding MSM-targeted services, 54.6% offered pharyngeal and 51.8% rectal STI testing. ; Conclusions ; 2-year colleges may require additional support with providing sexual health care. Improvements could entail increasing express testing, extra-genital STI testing, and LARC.
• Subjects:
  • Contraceptive Agents
  • Female
  • Homosexuality, Male
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Minority Groups
  • Papillomavirus Vaccines
  • Reproductive Health Services
  • Sexual Health
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  More +
• Keywords:
  • College health
  • health education
  • sexual health
  • STIs
• Source:
  J Am Coll Health. 66(4):259-268
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2018.1431896
• Pubmed ID:
  29405874
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6727964
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  66
• Issue:
  4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/81254/cdc_81254_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 107.05 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
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