COVID-19 and Sexual and Reproductive Health Care: Findings From Primary Care Providers Who Serve Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Among U.S. primary care physicians who delivered sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services to adolescents before the COVID-19 pandemic, we examine (1) changes in availability of in-person SRH services; (2) changes in accessibility and utilization of SRH services; and (3) use of strategies to support provision of SRH services during the pandemic.

Methods

Data were from the DocStyles provider survey administered September-October 2020. Descriptive analyses were restricted to family practitioners, internists, and pediatricians whose main work setting was outpatient and whose practice provided family planning or sexually transmitted infection services to ≥ one patient aged 15-19 years per week just before the COVID-19 pandemic (n = 791).

Results

Among physicia

SUBMITTER: Steiner RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8293631 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature