Clinical trial NCT00380510: The Safe Teen Study
Official title: The SAFE TEEN Study: Family Physicians' Reports of Facilitators of and Barriers to Preventive Care for Adolescents.
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Prevention
Keywords: Family Physicians
Adolescents
Preventive Care
Health Behavior
Lead sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2006-09-26
Enrollment: 60
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 21
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Time perspective: OTHER

Brief summary: The study examines (1)the incidence of preventive health services provided by family physicians to adolescent patients, and (2)barriers and facilitators of prevention discussions between family physicians and their adolescent patients.

Detailed description: This study used a card study design to allow volunteer physicians to record research data in the context of providing clinical care. The method was brief, simple, and convenient for busy practicing clinicians.

Volunteer resident physicians and faculty carried data collection checklists in their pockets and completed one for every adolescent patient seen during a randomly selected two week period. Physicians attempted to collect data on ten consecutive encounters with teen patients aged 11-21 years. The checklist documented patient characteristics (age, gender and ethnicity), reason for visit, parent presence, and types of prevention issues discussed during the visit. Patient and visit information was collected to assess its influence on physician prevention discussions. Finally, the checklist asked open-ended questions related to barriers to and facilitators to teen prevention discussions.

The study involved five clinical sites comprising approximately 140 faculty and resident family physicians. The investigators sought 10-15 volunteer physicians from each site (60-90 physicians), and asked them to complete data checklists on 10 consecutive adolescent patients (600-900 visits). After a training session, each site randomly selected data collection periods.

Physicians provided usual care for adolescent patients and recorded on the checklists any prevention discussions during the visit.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Family Medicine Residency physicians and faculty in six residency programs in Texas

Exclusion Criteria:

* Physicians not in the residency programs

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Locations:
city: Corpus Christi
country: United States
facility: Christus Memorial Hospital Spohn Family Medicine Residency Program
state: Texas
city: Harlingen
country: United States
facility: Valley Baptist Family Medicine Program
state: Texas
city: McAllen
country: United States
facility: McAllen Family Medicine Residency Program
state: Texas
city: San Antonio
country: United States
facility: Family Medicine Residency Program, Christus Santa Rosa Hospital
state: Texas
city: San Antonio
country: United States
facility: Department of Family and Community Medicine UTHSCSA
state: Texas
Study officials:
affiliation: University of TexasHealth Science Center at San Antonio
name: Sandra K Burge, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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