title: Adolescents' interpretations of conditional confidentiality assurances.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 27599-7225, USA. caf@med.unc.edu
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Ford
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Thomsen
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Compton
mesh_terms: 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