Influence of physician confidentiality assurances on adolescents' willingness to disclose information and seek future health care. A randomized controlled trial.
Ford CA, Millstein SG, Halpern­Felsher BL, Irwin CE Jr
Journal of the American Medical Association JAMA. 1997 Sep 24;278:1029­34: Issue: 12
"Adolescents are more willing to communicate with and seek health care from physicians who assure confidentiality. Further investigation is needed to identify a confidentiality assurance statement that explains the legal and ethical limitations of confidentiality without decreasing adolescents' likelihood of seeking future health care for routine and nonreportable sensitive health concerns".