A prospective evaluation of a change in attitude towards sexuality in medical students after their three years in medical college

Abstract

Aim of the studySexual health is central to holistic health care; studies indicate that health professionals are uncomfortable raising sexual issues partly because of their conservative sexual attitude. India hosts a multitude of social beliefs and cultural traditions. Everybody including Health professionals have certain beliefs hardwired into their mindsets, including attitude towards sexuality. so we aim to study the change in students’ attitude towards various aspects of own and others-sexuality & to explore the gender difference in same.Subject or material and methodsA prospective study was conducted in a medical college of Gujarat. The study was conducted in medical students in their 3rd year. Data were collected using Trueblood Sexual Attitudes Questionnaire and those were compared to the data of same students collected in their 1st year, in order to see the change in attitude toward sexuality. (Using paired & unpaired t test)ResultsThe study showed that the students had a positive attitude towards own-sexuality for all domains, after 3 years in medical college. In attitudes towards others-sexuality, students still had a negative attitude towards masturbation & commercial sex. This change of attitude was statistically significant for all students, except in male students’ attitude towards others-sexuality.DiscussionSexual health related topics and frequent encounters with patients with different sexual health needs gave students a better understanding of same, but the results are still unsatisfactory.ConclusionsIt can be concluded that: The students had a positive attitude towards own-sexuality after 3 years in medical college. In attitude towards others-sexuality, students still had a negative attitude towards masturbation and commercial sex.

Attitudes toward sexual behaviors: relationship with gender and sexual orientation

“…Most studies concerned with the relationship between gender and sexual attitudes have focused on people with a heterosexual orientation (e.g., Dosch et al, 2016;Sierra et al, 2021) or have not controlled for sexual orientation (e.g., Ojo, 2014;Shah et al, 2020). In addition, many have used measures of general sexual attitudes (e.g., García-Vega et al, 2017;Swami et al, 2017), which have more difficulty in predicting sexual behaviors (Blanc et al, 2018b) and sexual health (Sierra et al, 2021) than measures of attitudes toward specific sexual behaviors.…”

“…Most studies that have analyzed differences between men and women in sexual attitudes have focused on heterosexual individuals (e.g., Dosch et al, 2016;Sierra et al, 2021) or have not controlled for sexual orientation (e.g., Ojo, 2014;Shah et al, 2020). Recent studies conducted in United States (Lentz & Zaikman, 2021;Leri & DelPriore, 2021) and Portugal (Silva et al, 2021) examining the effect of sexual orientation on sexual attitudes in women from the general population and young adults show that nonheterosexual women have more permissive sexual attitudes than heterosexual women.…”

Enfermedad cardiovascular aterosclerótica y sexualidad

“…49 La consejería en sexualidad al paciente y su pareja debería hacer parte de la recuperación, 50 pero raramente se hace debido a la falta de experiencia o de comodidad en hablar de estos temas, así como el tiempo limitado por parte del personal médico. 51,52 Los factores asociados con la no discusión son el sexo femenino, la inactividad sexual previa, y la edad. 53 Las personas que reciben consejo tienen más alta frecuencia y satisfacción con la actividad sexual después del IAM, y reanudan la actividad sexual en un período de tiempo más corto 54,55 .…”

Reliability and Validity of the Adapted Turkish “Students’ Attitudes Towards Addressing Sexual Health Questionnaire” (SA-SH-TR)

“…Therefore, establishing new sexual health education programs within Turkish nursing education is imperative (Yanıkkerem & Üstgörül, 2020). Although there are a few measuring sexual attitude and studies conducted in different groups, psychometric studies have been found with these and similar scales in samples such as nursing, social worker, and physiotherapy regarding the evaluation of sexual health (Areskoug-Josefsson et al, 2019;Blanc et al, 2018;Fino et al, 2018;Fisher et al, 2013;Gerbild et al, 2017;Shah et al, 2020). However, the nursing education in Turkey part of this scale has been decided that the most appropriate scale for students.…”