Effectiveness of an individual, online e-learning program about sexually transmitted infections: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Primary health-care professionals play an important role in the treatment and prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI). Continuing Medical Education (CME)-courses can influence the knowledge and behavior of health-care professionals concerning STI. We performed a prospective cohort study to evaluate if the individual and online e-learning program "The STI-consultation", which uses the Commitment-to-Change (CtC)-method, is able to improve the knowledge, attitude and behavior of Dutch General Practitioners (GPs), concerning the STI-consultation. This e-learning program is an individual, accredited, online CME-program, which is freely available for all GPs and GP-trainees in the Netherlands.

Methods

In total 2192 participants completed the questionnaire be

SUBMITTER: Bos-Bonnie LHA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5402660 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature