Practice patterns of teaching testicular self-examination to adolescent patients.
Testicular self-examination has been proposed as a screening technique for the early detection of testicular neoplasms. Previous work suggests that few adolescent males have received instruction in the technique. We report the results of a physician survey to assess the frequency with which self-examination is taught and to identify the reasons why some physicians do not teach testicular self-examination. Only 17.5% of the physicians surveyed taught testicular self-examination to adolescent male patients on a routine basis. Eighty-two percent stated that they were unfamiliar with the technique or had not thought about it.
Sayger
S A
SA
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Adolescent Medicine Section, Oklahoma City, OK 73190.
Fortenberry
J D
JD
Beckman
R J
RJ
D000293:Adolescent; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010173:Palpation / Q000379:methods*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013737:Testis