Reflections on clinician barriers to sexual health conversations: The need for education and encouragement.

Comments on the original article by M. R. Canzona et al. (see record 2018-12809-003) on the topic of initiating sexual health conversations with breast cancer survivors. In this qualitative study, four themes that the authors describe as limiting the ability of clinicians to address issues of sexuality in breast cancer survivors emerge. This study demonstrates that barriers to initiating conversations about sexual health have a lot more to do with the assumptions, attitudes, and knowledge of the clinicians' and their view of what is best for patient care than with the patient herself. (PsycINFO Database Record