Are there harms from primary care behavioral counseling to prevent STI?
We searched MEDLINE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and PsycINFO from 1988 through December 2007, as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Prevention Research Synthesis Project database through August 2006. We examined the literature since 1988 because that was the initial year for published studies on sexual behavioral counseling in the post-HIV era. We supplemented literature searches with outside source material from experts in the field and the bibliographies of existing relevant systematic reviews.
