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‘Not the swab!’ Young men’s experiences with STI testing

Overview of attention for article published in Sociology of Health & Illness, January 2010
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Title
‘Not the swab!’ Young men’s experiences with STI testing
Published in
Sociology of Health & Illness, January 2010
DOI 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2009.01222.x
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Authors

Jean A. Shoveller, Rod Knight, Joy Johnson, John L. Oliffe, Shira Goldenberg

Abstract

In Canada, STI rates are high and rising, especially amongst young men. Meanwhile, the needs of young men regarding STI testing services are poorly understood, as are the socio-cultural and structural factors that influence young men's sexual health-seeking behaviours. To better understand this phenomenon, we draw on interviews with 45 men (ages 15-25) from British Columbia, Canada. Our research reveals how structural forces (e.g. STI testing procedures) interact with socio-cultural factors (e.g. perceptions of masculinities and feminities) to shape young men's experiences with STI testing. STI testing was characterised as both a potentially sexualised experience (e.g. fears of getting an erection during genital examinations), and as a process where young men experience multiple vulnerabilities associated with exposing the male body in clinical service sites. In response, participants drew on dominant ideals of masculinity to reaffirm their predominately hetero-normative gender identities. Despite growing up in an era where sexual health promotion efforts have been undertaken, participants did not feel they had permission to engage in discussions with other men about sexual health issues. Attending to young men's perspectives on STI testing represents a starting point in reforming our approaches to addressing how socio-cultural and structural factors shape these experiences.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 3%
Unknown 76 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 22%
Student > Master 9 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 9%
Student > Bachelor 5 6%
Researcher 4 5%
Other 10 13%
Unknown 26 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 17 22%
Psychology 11 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 3%
Other 5 6%
Unknown 26 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 September 2017.
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#2,759,956
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#4
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