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Table 2 Identified themes from the 45 Amsterdam GPs that reported Session-I provided eye-openers in questionnaires evaluating the effect of the educational intervention, 2017–2020

From: Understanding the effect of an educational intervention to optimize HIV testing strategies in primary care in Amsterdam – results of a mixed-methods study

Theme

Motivation for more proactive extragenital STI testing (including oropharyngeal and anorectal)

Motivation to improve STI testing based on risk assessment and the guidelines for STI testing

Motivation for more proactive HIV testing

Awareness of HIV indicator conditions

Motivation for more HIV/STI testing in general

Awareness of other STI (syphilis, hepatitis C, Mycoplasma genitalium)

Awareness of the (undiagnosed) HIV prevalence

Awareness of the clinical symptoms of acute HIV infection

Less HIV test ordering in low-risk populations

Awareness that too little HIV/STI testing is being done

  1. GP general practitioner, Session-I First session of the educational intervention, STI sexually transmitted infection
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