title: Are patients talking to their physicians about AIDS?
abstract: We conducted a nationwide telephone survey of a random sample of United States adults in summer 1988 (n = 2000, response rate = 75 percent) to find out if physicians were providing education and counseling to the public about AIDS and AIDS prevention. Within the previous five years, 94 percent had seen a physician but only 15 percent had discussed AIDS even though most said they would not object to discussing the topic. AIDS-related conversations are not commonplace in physician's offices and in most cases (72 percent) patients are the initiators of such conversations.
authors.affiliation: Division of Behavioral Sciences, University of California-San Francisco, School of Dentistry.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gerbert
authors.forename: B T
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Maguire
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Coates
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000328:Adult; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009819:Office Visits; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012494:Sampling Studies; D013689:Telephone; D014481:United States