HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS: A MISSING LINK IN UNDERSTANDING ACCEPTABILITY OF THE FEMALE CONDOM
HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS: A MISSING LINK IN UNDERSTANDING ACCEPTABILITY OF THE FEMALE CONDOM
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DOI：
10.1521/aeap.2011.23.1.65
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发表时间：
2011-02-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Stein, Zena A.
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作者：
Mantel, Joanne E.;West, Brooke S.;Stein, Zena A.
卫生保健提供者可以发挥关键作用，影响客户开始和保持使用女用避孕套，这是一种未充分使用的艾滋病毒/性传播感染和预防怀孕的方法。2001-2002年，基于对纽约市四种环境中的78名卫生保健提供者的半结构式访谈，我们发现大多数提供者都见过女用避孕套，但他们没有使用过，也没有向客户推荐这种方法。他们缺乏关于这种方法的细节何时插入，在哪里可以获得，以及它的成本。提供者的性别，提供者的培训水平，和设置出现影响他们的态度。除非大大改进对提供者的女用避孕套培训，否则就无法更广泛地接受这一对预防艾滋病毒/艾滋病和意外怀孕的重大公共卫生贡献。
Health care providers can play a key role in influencing clients to initiate and maintain use of the female condom, an underused method for HIV/STI and pregnancy prevention. In 2001-2002, based on semistructured interviews with 78 health care providers from four types of settings in New York City, we found that most providers had seen the female condom, but they had not used it and did not propose the method to clients. They lacked details about the method-when to insert it, where it can be obtained, and its cost. Gender of provider, provider level of training, and setting appeared to influence their attitudes. Unless and until provider training on the female condom is greatly improved, broader acceptance of this significant public health contribution to preventing HIV/AIDS and unwanted pregnancy will not be achieved.