Difficulties and facilities for notification of sexual partners with sexually transmitted infections
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Objective: to understand the difficulties and facilities of professionals to notify sexual partners with sexually transmitted infections. Methods: qualitative study carried out with 19 professionals from four referral services in sexually transmitted infections. A semistructured interview was conducted and the statements were analyzed through Content Analysis technique. Results: the difficulties identified were: diversity of types of sexual relationships, resistance of the index patient, emphasis on information transmission, ineffective verbal communication, insufficient time and absence of monitoring. The facilities were: respect for patient autonomy, counseling free of judgments, effective verbal communication, motivation and negotiation, written communication, confidential environment, partnership with the multiprofessional team, communication through card to evaluate effectiveness of notification.Conclusion: based on the competencies, communication was identified as a facilitator of empowerment of the index patient in the process of to reveal the infection to the contacts, and weaknesses emerged in the conduct of cases about the knowledge, planning, implementation, partnership and evaluation.
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- Cavalcante, E. G. F., Lima, I. C. V. D., Pinheiro, A. K. B., Miranda, M. C. C., & Galvão, M. T. G.
- Affiliations
- Universidade Federal do Ceará (BR)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Rev Rene
- Publisher
- Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
- Published
- 2017-06-13
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 250-256
- ISSN
- 1517-3852 (ISSN-L)
- 2175-6783
- OpenAlex
- W2609982876
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- 2023: 1
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- Language
- en
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Microbiology › Reproductive tract infections research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Social Sciences › General Social Sciences › HIV, TB, and STIs Epidemiology
- Keywords
- sexually transmitted infections, partner notification, health professionals' perspectives, verbal communication, patient autonomy, counseling, patient empowerment, referral services, multidisciplinary team
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