The Safe Teen Study

Sponsor

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (Other)

Overall Status

Completed

CT.gov ID

NCT00380510

Collaborator

(none)

Enrollment

Locations

Duration (Months)

Patients Per Site

1.5

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

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.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Prevention

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.

Study Design

Study Type:

Observational

Time Perspective:

Other

Official Title:

The SAFE TEEN Study: Family Physicians' Reports of Facilitators of and Barriers to Preventive Care for Adolescents.

Study Start Date :

Jun 1, 2004

Study Completion Date :

Feb 1, 2005

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

21 Years to 65 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

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

Exclusion Criteria:

Physicians not in the residency programs

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Christus Memorial Hospital Spohn Family Medicine Residency Program	Corpus Christi	Texas	United States	78405
2	Valley Baptist Family Medicine Program	Harlingen	Texas	United States	78550
3	McAllen Family Medicine Residency Program	McAllen	Texas	United States	78503
4	Family Medicine Residency Program, Christus Santa Rosa Hospital	San Antonio	Texas	United States	78207
5	Department of Family and Community Medicine UTHSCSA	San Antonio	Texas	United States	78229

Sponsors and Collaborators

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Investigators

Principal Investigator: Sandra K Burge, Ph.D., University of TexasHealth Science Center at San Antonio

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

Responsible Party:

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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT00380510

Other Study ID Numbers:

HP000016-02

First Posted:

Sep 26, 2006

Last Update Posted:

Sep 26, 2006

Last Verified:

Sep 1, 2006

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Study Results

No Results Posted as of Sep 26, 2006