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Article: Diaz, A., Edwards, S., Neal, W.P. et al. (2004). Obtaining a history of sexual victimization from adolescent females seeking routine health care.(Sex Research Up)
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- The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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Diaz, A., Edwards, S., Neal, W.P. et al. (2004). Obtaining a history of sexual victimization from adolescent females seeking routine health care. The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, 71, 170-173.
It is believed that adolescent females who have been sexually victimized often do not disclose this information to primary care physicians and other health care providers and, consequently, appropriate medical treatment and psychological counselling are not provided. As a result, it is important for health care professionals to routinely elicit sexual victimization histories from their adolescent female patients. The purpose of the Diaz et al. study was to document one ...