Adolescents' interpretations of conditional confidentiality assurances.
OBJECTIVE
To improve physicians' discussions of confidentiality policies with adolescent patients.


METHODS
Fifty-three students completed private semistructured interviews designed to explore adolescents' interpretations of a statement explaining both the protections and limitations of confidentiality.


RESULTS
Results suggest strategies for explaining conditional confidentiality in a way adolescents' understand and trust.
Ford
C A
CA
Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 27599-7225, USA. caf@med.unc.edu
Thomsen
S L
SL
Compton
B
B
D000293:Adolescent; D000295:Adolescent Medicine; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States