Compliance with treatment for XXXX .

@entity1 @entity2954 @entity6981 @entity2953
Issues of compliance specific to @entity2953 ( @entity2953 ) are reviewed along with general issues of compliance as they pertain to @entity2953 and adolescents. Treatment of @entity2953 is unlike that of other common illnesses for which compliance poses a problem: they are some of the most common treatable diseases and are socially stigmatizing; their treatment often is at public expense or in public facilities; physicians are undereducated about them in proportion to their ubiquity and complexity; laboratory confirmation of eradication of infection usually is desirable; @entity1 other than the primary @entity1 need examination and treatment; and these infections often are detected in asymptomatic @entity1 . Each of these problem areas testifies to the need for strategies to increase compliance with diagnosis and treatment. Practitioners need to make the effort to find these infections in asymptomatic @entity1 who are likely to be infected. Screening for @entity2953 often is a wise course of action with sexually experienced adolescents. Less invasive methods of testing often are appropriate. 2 strategies have been shown to enhance the return of @entity1 for tests of cure. Kroger found that the presence of college undergraduates who were studying health education by observing and critiquing nurses in a venereology clinic approximately doubled the rate of return of male @entity1 and tripled the rate of female @entity1 returning for tests of cure of @entity2954 . Ogunbanjo et al. found that additional counseling of Nigerian @entity1 resulted in more return visits for @entity1 but not for their partners. Certain strategies that generally are applicable to enhancing compliance have special implications for the treatment of @entity2953 . Simplification of treatment is one of these strategies. Diseases treatable with a single dose of medicine include @entity2954 , trichomoniasis, and @entity6981 . An obviously preferable course is the prevention of @entity2953 . The enhancement of adolescent compliance with treatment involves considerations unique to this age group. The provision of treatment without parental knowledge or consent may improve compliance. Adolescents have a mentality different from that of adults, and their concrete style of thinking, which may not be apparent to the practitioner, warrants consideration when explaining sequelae of @entity2953 to the adolescent @entity1 .
