Table 2.
Checklist of Family Planning and Related Preventive Health Services for Men
| Screening components and source of recommendation | Family planning services (provide services in accordance with the appropriate clinical recommendation) |
Related preventive health services | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contraceptive servicesa | Basic infertility services | Preconception health servicesb | STD servicesc | ||
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| |||||
| History | |||||
| Reproductive life pland | Screen | Screen | Screen | Screen | |
| Medical historyd,e | Screen | Screen | Screen | Screen | |
| Sexual health assessmentd,e | Screen | Screen | Screen | Screen | |
| Alcohol and other drug used,e,f | Screen | ||||
| Tobacco used,f | Screen | ||||
| Immunizationsd | Screen | Screen for HPV and HBVg | |||
| Depressiond,f | Screen | ||||
| Physical exam | |||||
| Height, weight, and BMId,f | Screen | ||||
| Blood pressured,e | Screeng | ||||
| Genital exame | Screen (if clinically indicated) | Screen (if clinically indicated) | Screeng | ||
| Lab testing | |||||
| Chlamydiad | Screeng | ||||
| Gonorrhead | Screeng | ||||
| Syphilisd,f | Screeng | ||||
| HIV/AIDSd,f | Screeng | ||||
| Hepatitis Cd,f | Screeng | ||||
| Diabetesd,f | Screeng | ||||
HBV, hepatitis B virus; HPV, human papillomavirus; QFP, Providing Quality Family Planning Services: Recommendations of CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs; STD, sexually transmitted disease.
No special evaluation needs to be done prior to making condoms available to males. However, when a male client requests advice on pregnancy prevention, he should be provided contraceptive services as described in the section “Provide Contraceptive Services” in the QFP.
The services listed here represent a subset of recommended preconception health services for men that were recommended and for which there was a direct link to fertility or infant health outcomes (Source: Frey K, Navarro S, Kotelchuck M, Lu M. The clinical content of preconception care: preconception care for men. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2008;199(6)(suppl):S389-S395).
STD services also promote preconception health but are listed separately here to highlight their importance in the context of all types of family planning visits. The services listed in this column are for men without symptoms suggestive of an STD.
CDC recommendation.
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation.
Professional medical association recommendation.
Indicates that screening is suggested only for those persons at highest risk or for a specific subpopulation with high prevalence of infection or other condition.