Intervening to Reduce Risk - Brief Behavioural Interventions and a Patient at No Apparent Risk course for GPs

This is the second of four complementary sessions on behavioural and clinical interventions to reduce the risk of patients having, or developing in the future, sexual health problems. The three patients we consider here have a range of needs. There is a focus on interventions to reduce risk and we also consider a patient at no apparent risk. This session has been written in conjunction with Sexual Health in Practice (SHIP). Please see acknowledgements for more details. This session was reviewed by Phillippa Matthews and last updated in January 2015.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session you will be able to:

• Identify a patient's sexual health risk
• Formulate management plans that take into account identified risks and prioritised needs of individual patients
• Practice brief behaviour change interventions, engaging patients in developing strategies to reduce their risk of unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmissible infections
• Discuss the management of patients at no apparent risk

In the previous session, GPS_11_003a Intervening to Reduce Risk – Promoting Contraception, you began to familiarise yourself with the process of formulating a management plan for patients on the basis of their risk assessment.