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Table 3 Behavioral characteristics of vocational school students with sexual experience according to gender

From: Correlates of STI testing among vocational school students in the Netherlands

 

N = 501

%

Boys

N = 281

%

Girls

N = 220

%

Involved in steady relationship ***

265

52.9

119

42.3

146

66.4

Sexual orientation

      

Heterosexual

491

98.0

275

97.9

216

98.2

Homosexual

4

< 1

1

< 1

3

1.4

Bisexual

3

< 1

2

< 1

1

< 1

Don't know yet

3

< 1

3

1.1

0

0

Sexual behaviors

      

   Vaginal sex

496

99.0

279

99.3

217

98.6

With steady partner(s) **

368

73.5

190

67.6

178

80.9

With casual partner(s) ***

247

49.3

178

63.3

69

31.4

Mean no. of lifetime partners vaginal intercourse (SD) ***

(n = 443, nmale = 235, nfemale = 208)1

5.3 (7.8)

 

7.1 (9.4)

 

3.3 (4.7)

 

   Anal sex **

119

23.8

80

28.5

39

17.7

With steady partner(s) *

75

15.0

52

18.5

23

10.5

With casual partner(s) ***

50

10.0

42

14.9

8

3.6

Mean no. of lifetime partners anal intercourse (SD) *

(n = 99 nmale = 64, nfemale = 35)1

2.1 (2.9)

 

2.4 (3.5)

 

1.5 (1.3)

 

   Oral sex ***

339

67.7

167

59.4

172

78.2

Mean no. of partners oral sex in past 12 Months (SD) ***

(n = 337, nmale= 165, nfemale = 172)1

2.3 (4.4)

 

3.3 (5.9)

 

1.3 (1.6)

 

Testing behavior

      

   Ever tested for HIV ***

48

9.6

13

4.6

35

15.9

   Positive diagnosis for HIV

0

0.0

0

0.0

0

0.0

   Ever tested for other STI **

77

15.4

32

11.4

45

20.5

   Positive diagnosis for STI

18

23.4

4

12.5

142

31.8

Condom use in past 12 months

      

   Always used a condom during vaginal sex with steady partner3 ***

121

32.9

78

41.1

43

24.2

   Always used a condom during vaginal sex with casual partner4

143

57.9

105

59.0

38

55.1

   Always used a condom during anal sex with steady partner5

22

29.3

17

32.7

5

21.7

   Always used a condom during anal sex with casual partner6

20

40.0

17

40.5

3

37.5

  1. * p < .05 (for gender difference); ** p < .01 (for gender difference); *** p <.001 (for gender difference)
  2. 1 Total does not add up to the total of participants reporting the given sexual experience because of missing values and case exclusion due to inconsistencies in reported number of partners (e.g. smaller number of lifetime partners than the number of partners in the past year).
  3. 2 One female respondent did not report her test result.
  4. 3 Percentage represents condom use during vaginal sex with a steady partner/number of participants that have had vaginal sex with a steady partner.
  5. 4 Percentage represents condom use during vaginal sex with a casual partner/number of participants that have had vaginal sex with a casual partner.
  6. 5 Percentage represents condom use during anal sex with a steady partner/number of participants that have had anal sex with a steady partner.
  7. 6 Percentage represents condom use during anal sex with a casual partner/number of participants that have had anal sex with a casual partner.