Teens Need Regularly Make Medical Examination

Teens Need Regularly Make Medical Examination.
Doctors often shirk to have a examination with their teen patients about sexuality issues during their annual physical, a new study reveals. This results in missed opportunities to apprise and counsel young people about ways to help impede sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted teen pregnancies, the researchers suggested. The study, published Dec 30, 2013 in JAMA Pediatrics, confused 253 teens and 49 doctors from 11 clinics from the Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina area.

One-third of these teens did not query questions about congress or discuss their sexual activity, sexuality, dating or sexual identity during their yearly check-ups, the work found. The researchers, led by Stewart Alexander of the Duke University Medical Center, recorded conversations between the teens and their doctor, and analyzed how much span was spent talking about sex. They also considered the involvement of teens in these discussions.

The theme of sex was brought up at 65 percent of all visits, the den showed. The investigators pointed out, however, that when these talks occurred, they were as per usual short conversations. On average, these talks lasted only 36 seconds. The researchers famous that Asian doctors spoke about sex with their teen patients less often than the other doctors tangled in the study.

The study also showed that most of these discussions involved female patients and black teens, as well as older teens. When task visits were longer and explicitly confidential, however, the topic of sex was more apposite to be discussed, the study authors pointed out in a university news release keratin. "The findings suggest that physicians are missing opportunities to instruct and counsel adolescent patients on healthy sexual behaviors and avoiding of sexually transmitted infections and unplanned pregnancy," Alexander's team concluded in their report.