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- Title
Physicians Often Omit Sexual Health Services From Adolescents' Care.
- Authors
Mahler, K.
- Abstract
This article focuses on how California physicians who routinely see adolescents, often do not provide them with high level of sexual health-related preventive care. Forty percent screen all of their adolescent patients to determine if they are sexually active, and 31 percent furnish all teenage patients with information about infection with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Only 4 percent said they provide condoms to all of their sexually active adolescent patients. Obstetrician-gynecologists are more likely than other specialists to provide STD preventive care. Female physicians are more likely than male doctors to do so, although gender differences are much less apparent among recent medical school graduates. To examine whether physician variables influence the provision of STD-related preventive care to adolescents, researchers conducted a series of regression analyses in which they controlled for a physician's specialty, gender, year of medical school graduation and practice setting.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; PHYSICIANS; TEENAGERS; PATIENTS; SEXUALLY transmitted diseases; HIV
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1997, Vol 29, Issue 2, p91
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2953370