Preferences for partner notification method: variation in responses between respondents as index patients and contacts.
Int J STD AIDS
; 18(7): 493-4, 2007 07.
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| ID: mdl-17650574
ABSTRACT
There have been very few studies focusing on what form of communication patients would find acceptable from a clinic. This study looks at the differences in preferences for various partner notification methods when the respondents were index patients compared with when they had to be contacted because a partner had a sexually transmitted infection (STI). There were 2544 respondents. When the clinic had to notify partners, respondents were more likely to report the method as good when a partner had an STI and they were being contacted compared with when the respondents had an infection and the partner was being contacted. The opposite was true for patient referral partner notification. Therefore, there are variations in the preferences of respondents for partner notification method, which depend on whether they see themselves as index patients or contacts.
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Bases de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Enfermedades de Transmisión Sexual
/
Trazado de Contacto
/
Satisfacción del Paciente
Tipo de estudio:
Screening_studies
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Int J STD AIDS
Asunto de la revista:
SINDROME DA IMUNODEFICIENCIA ADQUIRIDA (AIDS)
Año:
2007
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Reino Unido