Sexual health in general practice: introductory skills

Sexual health in general practice: introductory skills.

Sexual health delivery in general practice.

Lactobacillus and thrush prevention A randomised controlled trial1 has dashed the hope that eating, or putting preparations of lactobacillus into the vagina, prevents thrush. The aim of the study published in the British Medical Journal was to test whether oral or vaginal lactobacillus could prevent postantibiotic vulvovaginitis. The study recruited women aged 18–50 years with nongynaecological...

Psychiatric Skills in General Practice

The teaching of psychiatry to students 30 years ago was meagre in the extreme. In the general wards we were taught scientific medicine and there every disease appeared to have a clearly defined etiology. It was due to congenital abnormality, inflammation, neoplasia and so on, and at the end of the list was hysteria. Every disease, it seemed, could be simulated by hysteria. We gathered that this...

Sexual health in general practice: history and the partner history.

School nurses' skills in sexual health education.

School nurses are often called on teach sexual health without being given any formal teacher training or support. This article describes a study of the experiences of 50 school nurses. The author suggests ways in which schools and their nurses could create supportive and complementary teaching partnerships for effective sex education.