Do pediatric chief residents recognize details of prepubertal female genital anatomy: a national survey
| Autor: | Scott R. Dubow, Angelo P. Giardino, Charles Felzen Johnson, Cindy W. Christian |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Child abuse
Male medicine.medical_specialty Victimology Poison control Suicide prevention Pediatrics Occupational safety and health Education Surveys and Questionnaires Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans Psychiatry Child business.industry Internship and Residency Recognition Psychology Child Abuse Sexual Genitalia Female United States Psychiatry and Mental health medicine.anatomical_structure Sexual abuse Hymen Child sexual abuse Family medicine Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female business |
| Zdroj: | Child abuseneglect. 29(2) |
| ISSN: | 0145-2134 |
| Popis: | Objective: To evaluate how well a group of recently trained pediatric chief residents could label anatomic structures on two different photographs of female prepubertal genitalia. Additionally, the study sought to explore aspects of pediatric training in sexual abuse and clinical practice issues surrounding the routine genital examination. Method: A 38-item questionnaire was mailed to pediatric chief residents at all of the officially listed pediatric residency-training programs in the continental US. Comparisons were made between this study and the responses to two previous surveys, which asked a more heterogeneous group of physicians to label one of the photographs used in the study. The second photograph was added because of its improved clarity of each anatomic structure when compared to the first photograph used in the previous studies. The study also asked about clinical practice issues surrounding the prepubertal genital examination. Results: An overall response rate of 73% was achieved and analysis was done on 139 respondents. One-half of chief residents thought that their training during residency on sexual abuse was inadequate for practice. Sixty-four percent of chief residents correctly labeled the hymen on the photograph used in the previous studies, which was not significantly different from the 62% and 59% of physicians who correctly labeled the hymen in the previous surveys. In the second photograph, which more clearly displayed the various anatomic structures, 71% correctly labeled the hymen. Conclusion: Pediatric chief residents reported variable amounts of training on issues pertaining to child sexual abuse during residency, think that this time was inadequate, and, while doing slightly better than a more diverse group of previously studied physicians, did not achieve 100% accuracy in identifying basic genital structures correctly on two different photographs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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