Reasons sexual healthcare was not accessed during lockdown (total n=58)
| Reasons sexual healthcare not accessed during lockdown | n | % |
| Issue viewed by individual as unimportant/non-urgent† | 29 | 50.0 |
| Didn't think it was important/necessary | 20 | 34.5 |
| Thought it could wait | 23 | 39.7 |
| Barriers to seeking healthcare† | 24 | 41.4 |
| People in my household would ask where I was going | 15 | 25.9 |
| Tried calling but couldn't get through | 11 | 19.0 |
| No way to get to a clinic | 9 | 15.5 |
| No privacy to make a telephone call | 8 | 13.8 |
| No telephone credit | 4 | 6.9 |
| Don't have my own telephone | 1 | 1.7 |
| Lack of information about service availability during lockdown† | 24 | 41.4 |
| Didn’t think I was allowed to during lockdown | 19 | 32.8 |
| Didn’t think anywhere was open | 12 | 20.7 |
| Didn’t know who to call | 6 | 10.3 |
| COVID-19/lockdown-related concerns† | 15 | 25.8 |
| Didn’t want to leave house during lockdown | 14 | 24.1 |
| Worried about catching COVID-19 if I went out | 8 | 13.8 |
| Other reasons given* | 7 | 12.1 |
| Don’t know | 1 | 1.7 |
*Other reasons given: was homeless (1); no childcare (2); not called for routine contraception (1); working so missed call-backs (1); bad experience with care in the past (1); usual contraception not currently available in New Zealannd (1).
†These are subheadings created for subcategories of similar types of reasons, number and percentage denotes the number of people who selected one or more reason in this subcategory