Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Research and Policy Center for Childhood and Adolescence, University of California, San Francisco, California 94118, USA. buckelews@peds.ucsf.edu
This study evaluates a training and tools intervention to increase provider self-efficacy to screen and counsel adolescents for risky behavior. Two clinics within a health maintenance organization served as intervention sites, and two as comparison sites. Self-efficacy to deliver adolescent services increased significantly in the intervention group relative to the comparison group.