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- Title
Frequency and thoroughness of STD/HIV risk assessment by physicians in a high-risk metropolitan area.
- Authors
Boekeloo, B O; Marx, E S; Kral, A H; Coughlin, S C; Bowman, M; Rabin, D L
- Abstract
The US Preventive Services Task Force recommends that all primary care physicians assess the sexually transmitted disease/human immunodeficiency virus (STD/HIV) risk of all adolescent and adult patients. To determine whether factors amenable to change through continuing medical education are associated with frequent and thorough STD/HIV risk assessment, a telephone survey of primary care physicians in the Washington, DC metropolitan area was conducted (n = 961). Thirty-seven percent of physicians reported regularly asking new adult patients about their sexual practices; 60% asked new adolescent patients. STD/HIV risk questioning was associated with physicians' confidence in their ability to help prevent HIV, comfort with discussing patients' sexual practices, and perception of a large STD/HIV problem in their practice. These findings suggest that continuing medical education should target improvement in physicians' sexual practice questioning skills.
- Publication
American journal of public health, 1991, Vol 81, Issue 12, p1645
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.2105/ajph.81.12.1645