ArticleScandinavian journal of primary health care2022
Confidentiality matters! Adolescent males' views of primary care in relation to psychosocial health: a structural equation modelling approach.
Article in Scandinavian journal of primary health care, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Barriers and facilitators of mental health help-seeking behaviours among school-going adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa: A qualitative evidence synthesis.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Review
- Struggling in no-man's land between childhood and adulthood - a phenomenological-hermeneutical video-observation study exploring adolescent males' encounters with general practitioners.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2025Article
- They are my worries, so it's me the doctor should listen to-adolescent males' experiences of consultations with general practitioners.BMC primary care · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate to what degree adolescent males (1) value confidentiality, (2) experience confidentiality and are comfortable asking sensitive questions when visiting a general practitioner (GP), and (3) whether self-reported symptoms of poor mental health and health-compromising behaviours (HCB) affect these states of matters.
designCross-sectional.
settingSchool-based census on life, health and primary care in Region Sörmland, Sweden. SUBJECTS: 2,358 males aged 15-17 years (response rate 84%).
main outcome measuresThe impact of poor mental health and HCBs on adolescent males' valuing and experiencing private time with the GP, having professional secrecy explained, and being comfortable asking about the body, love and sex, analysed with structural equation modelling.
resultsAlmost all respondents valued confidentiality regardless of their mental health or whether they engaged in HCBs: 86% valued spending private time with the GP, and 83% valued receiving a secrecy explanation. Among those who had visited a GP in the past year (
conclusionConfidentiality matters regardless of poor mental health or HCBs and makes adolescent males more comfortable asking sensitive questions. We suggest that GPs consistently offer private time and explain professional secrecy.Key PointsConfidentiality for adolescent males has been scantily studied in relation to mental health and health-compromising behaviours.In this study, most adolescent males valued confidentiality, regardless of their mental health and health-compromising behaviours.Health-compromising behaviours impacted only slightly, and mental health not at all, on experiences of confidentiality in primary care.When provided private time and an explanation of professional secrecy, adolescent males were more comfortable asking the GP sensitive questions.
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