Computer-age interviewing.Women and, to a lesser extent, men attending a Seattle sexually transmitted disease sexually transmitted disease (STD) or venereal disease, term for infections acquired mainly through sexual contact. Five diseases were traditionally known as venereal diseases: gonorrhea, syphilis, and the less common granuloma inguinale, (STD (Subscriber Trunk Dialing) Long distance dialing outside of the U.S. that does not require operator intervention. STD prefix codes are required and billing is based on call units, which are a fixed amount of money in the currency of that country. ) clinic in 2002-2003 were more apt to tell a computer about sensitive behaviors than they were to tell a live interviewer. (1) A total of 609 men and women between the ages of 14 and 65 agreed to take an audio compute-assisted self-interview before having their sexual history taken by a clinician clinician /cli·ni·cian/ (kli-nish´in) an expert clinical physician and teacher. cli·ni·cian n. . Higher proportions of women told the computer than told the clinician that they had recently had a female partner (20% vs. 12%) or engaged in oral sex (67% vs. 50%), had used amphetamines Amphetamines Sympathomimetic amines; sometimes called speed; synthetic chemicals that stimulate the central nervous system. Mentioned in: Weight Loss Drugs amphetamines (5% vs. 1%) or had engaged in transactional sex (21% vs. 10%); a lower proportion reported STD symptoms to the computer than to the clinician (55% vs. 64%). Among men, only reports of ever having had a male partner were more common in the computerized interview than in a face-to-face situation (37% vs. 29%). Fifty-six percent of participants preferred the computerized to the clinician interview, and 49% would favor answering sexual history questions on a computer and then reviewing their answers with a clinician. The researchers conclude that computerized self-interview could help to "expand and enhance behavioral surveillance in STD clinics, standardize stan·dard·ize v. 1. To cause to conform to a standard. 2. To evaluate by comparing with a standard. sexual history-taking, and...decrease costs associated with clinic visits." (1.) Kurth AE et al., A comparison between audio compute-assisted self-interviews and clinician interviews for obtaining the sexual history, Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexually transmitted diseases Infections that are acquired and transmitted by sexual contact. Although virtually any infection may be transmitted during intimate contact, the term sexually transmitted disease is restricted to conditions that are largely , 2004, 31(12):719-726. |
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