effectiveness of dialectical behavioral therapy with religiosity approach as treatment for intimate partner violence committed by men, iran, urmia, 2006-7     mosazadeh h [1] *, mergathy ke [2] , asgarnejad fa [3] , mergathy kt [4] , tagdisi mh [5] , motevallian a [6]     received: 21 nov, 2011 accepted: 13 apr, 2012     abstract   background & aims: according to reports, intimate partner viole...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To compare the effects of partner-delivered foot reflexology and usual care plus attention on patients' perceived pain and anxiety. DESIGN The experimental pretest/post-test design included patient-partner dyads randomly assigned to an experimental or control group. SETTING Four hospitals in the southeastern United States. SAMPLE 42 experimental and 44 control subjects ...

BACKGROUND Genital chlamydia is the most commonly notified sexually transmissible infection (STI) in Australia and worldwide and can have serious reproductive health outcomes. Partner notification, testing and treatment are important facets of chlamydia control. Traditional methods of partner notification are not reaching enough partners to effectively control transmission of chlamydia. Patient...

OBJECTIVE To develop and evaluate instructional and packaging materials for patient-delivered partner therapy (PDPT). METHODS 64 patients participated from an urban US sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinic. The research comprised three phases: individual interviews to elicit attitudes and beliefs regarding PDPT and to assess the understanding of key STI-related concepts and terminology;...

BACKGROUND Patient-delivered partner therapy (PDPT) has been evaluated in randomized trials. No analysis has examined the impact of PDPT once implemented programmatically. METHODS We examined the association between receiving PDPT and Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae reinfection within 1 year in patients diagnosed at San Francisco City Clinic between October 31, 2005 and March ...

INTRODUCTION Beginning in the late 1990s, investigators in the USA and UK began evaluating new approaches to ensure the treatment of sex partners of persons with curable sexually transmitted infections (STI). Both countries had longstanding partner services programmes affecting at least some STI, but confronted a mismatch between the resources available to provide partner services and the scale...

PURPOSE Current Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines recommend that sexually transmitted disease (STD) screening measures for high-risk populations such as homeless youth prioritize testing in out-of-clinic settings and incorporate new approaches to STD eradication, such as field-delivered testing and treatment and patient-delivered partner therapy (PDPT). Our non-medically trained rese...