Participant acceptability questionnaire results from the Meatal swab Yourself with Testing for Infections Collectively (MYSTIC) study: a diagnostic accuracy study of rectal and pharyngeal swabs pooled with meatal swabs, or first-catch urine, for gono

In this first study to assess people's views of taking their own penile-meatal swab versus FCU, the MSM/TGW participants found taking meatal swabs was easy and acceptable and a small majority preferred them to FCU even if no improved diagnostic sensitivity over urine. These results challenge the conventional thinking that urine is the preferred urogenital sample in MSM/TGW.