The Safe Teen Study

Completed

• Conditions: Prevention

• Registration Number: NCT00380510
• Lead Sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2004-06
• Study Completion: 2005-02
• Status Verified: 2006-09
• Study First Submitted: 2006-09-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2006-09-25
• Last Update Submitted: 2006-09-25
• Study First Posted: 2006-09-26
• Last Update Posted: 2006-09-26

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

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

Exclusion Criteria

• Physicians not in the residency programs

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Trial Locations

Locations (5)

Family Medicine Residency Program, Christus Santa Rosa Hospital; 🇺🇸 San Antonio, Texas, United States

Department of Family and Community Medicine UTHSCSA; 🇺🇸 San Antonio, Texas, United States

Valley Baptist Family Medicine Program; 🇺🇸 Harlingen, Texas, United States

Christus Memorial Hospital Spohn Family Medicine Residency Program; 🇺🇸 Corpus Christi, Texas, United States

McAllen Family Medicine Residency Program; 🇺🇸 McAllen, Texas, United States