title: Where do young adults want opportunistic chlamydia screening services to be located?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This study measured the acceptability of urine-based chlamydia screening to young adults, where young adults wanted opportunistic chlamydia screening services to be located, and by whom they wanted to be offered screening.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional survey of 5685 university students and 400 young adult healthcares setting attendees (age: 18-29 years).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Ninety-six percent of males and 93% of females said that they would find it acceptable to be offered chlamydia screening. Seventy-six percent of males and 77% of females wanted to be offered screening by a doctor or nurse. Young women would prefer female staff. Most respondents preferred that screening be located in traditional healthcare settings such as General Practices, and offered by either doctors or nurses. More than 90% of respondents did not want screening services to be located in pharmacies and almost all rejected public non-health care screening settings.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Opportunistic chlamydia screening services should be located in traditional healthcare/medical settings, and screening should be offered by doctors and nurses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine,  Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2,  Republic of Ireland.
authors.forename: Ruairi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Brugha
authors.forename: Myles
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Balfe
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jeffares
authors.forename: Ronán M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Conroy
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Clarke
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fitzgerald
authors.forename: Emer
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: O'Connell
authors.forename: Deirdre
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vaughan
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Coleman
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: McGee
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gillespie
authors.forename: Diarmuid
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: O'Donovan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002690:Chlamydia Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002692:Chlamydia trachomatis / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D003151:Community Health Centers; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D058005:General Practitioners; D006801:Humans; D007494:Ireland; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D057240:Patient Preference / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult