Cargando…
Preparing medical students to recognize and respond to gender based violence in Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Medical practitioners are ideally positioned to mitigate the impact of gender based violence (GBV) on the health of victims. However, there is a lack of information on students' ability and willingness to do so. OBJECTIVE: To identify factors which impact on students' attainmen...
Autores principales: | , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Makerere Medical School
2019
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6531973/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31148976 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v19i1.22 |
_version_ | 1783420918728491008 |
---|---|
author | Fawole, Olufunmilayo I van Wyk, Jacqueline M Balogun, Busola O Akinsola, OJ Adejimi, Adebola |
author_facet | Fawole, Olufunmilayo I van Wyk, Jacqueline M Balogun, Busola O Akinsola, OJ Adejimi, Adebola |
author_sort | Fawole, Olufunmilayo I |
collection | PubMed |
description | BACKGROUND: Medical practitioners are ideally positioned to mitigate the impact of gender based violence (GBV) on the health of victims. However, there is a lack of information on students' ability and willingness to do so. OBJECTIVE: To identify factors which impact on students' attainment of the knowledge and perceived ability to manage victims. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted on 388 (91.5%) final year medical students from three medical schools in South West, Nigeria. RESULTS: Students were knowledgeable on sexual (63.7%) and physical (54.6%) forms of GBV and unfamiliar with other forms. The mean scores for knowledge (7.1 ± 2.5 out of 11); attitude (52.6 ± 10.3 out of 80); personal comfort (44.1 ± 10.0 out of 65) and skills (3.1 ± 2.6 out of 7) were calculated. Younger respondents, females and married students reported less skill to manage victims. The location of school, previous training and personal comfort remained significant determinants of students' self reported skills on GBV. Respondents with prior training on GBV and comfortable with managing patients, were four times more likely to perceive they were more skilled than their peers [AOR = 4.33, 95% CI: 2.37 – 7.90 and AOR 3.53; 95% CI 2.16–5.78 respectively]. CONCLUSION: Formalised skills training on GBV is a necessity, especially for young, female students and training cannot be left to serendipity. The medical curriculum should be reviewed. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-6531973 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2019 |
publisher | Makerere Medical School |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-65319732019-05-30 Preparing medical students to recognize and respond to gender based violence in Nigeria Fawole, Olufunmilayo I van Wyk, Jacqueline M Balogun, Busola O Akinsola, OJ Adejimi, Adebola Afr Health Sci Articles BACKGROUND: Medical practitioners are ideally positioned to mitigate the impact of gender based violence (GBV) on the health of victims. However, there is a lack of information on students' ability and willingness to do so. OBJECTIVE: To identify factors which impact on students' attainment of the knowledge and perceived ability to manage victims. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted on 388 (91.5%) final year medical students from three medical schools in South West, Nigeria. RESULTS: Students were knowledgeable on sexual (63.7%) and physical (54.6%) forms of GBV and unfamiliar with other forms. The mean scores for knowledge (7.1 ± 2.5 out of 11); attitude (52.6 ± 10.3 out of 80); personal comfort (44.1 ± 10.0 out of 65) and skills (3.1 ± 2.6 out of 7) were calculated. Younger respondents, females and married students reported less skill to manage victims. The location of school, previous training and personal comfort remained significant determinants of students' self reported skills on GBV. Respondents with prior training on GBV and comfortable with managing patients, were four times more likely to perceive they were more skilled than their peers [AOR = 4.33, 95% CI: 2.37 – 7.90 and AOR 3.53; 95% CI 2.16–5.78 respectively]. CONCLUSION: Formalised skills training on GBV is a necessity, especially for young, female students and training cannot be left to serendipity. The medical curriculum should be reviewed. Makerere Medical School 2019-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6531973/ /pubmed/31148976 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v19i1.22 Text en © 2019 Fawole et al. Licensee African Health Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Articles Fawole, Olufunmilayo I van Wyk, Jacqueline M Balogun, Busola O Akinsola, OJ Adejimi, Adebola Preparing medical students to recognize and respond to gender based violence in Nigeria |
title | Preparing medical students to recognize and respond to gender based violence in Nigeria |
title_full | Preparing medical students to recognize and respond to gender based violence in Nigeria |
title_fullStr | Preparing medical students to recognize and respond to gender based violence in Nigeria |
title_full_unstemmed | Preparing medical students to recognize and respond to gender based violence in Nigeria |
title_short | Preparing medical students to recognize and respond to gender based violence in Nigeria |
title_sort | preparing medical students to recognize and respond to gender based violence in nigeria |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6531973/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31148976 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v19i1.22 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT fawoleolufunmilayoi preparingmedicalstudentstorecognizeandrespondtogenderbasedviolenceinnigeria AT vanwykjacquelinem preparingmedicalstudentstorecognizeandrespondtogenderbasedviolenceinnigeria AT balogunbusolao preparingmedicalstudentstorecognizeandrespondtogenderbasedviolenceinnigeria AT akinsolaoj preparingmedicalstudentstorecognizeandrespondtogenderbasedviolenceinnigeria AT adejimiadebola preparingmedicalstudentstorecognizeandrespondtogenderbasedviolenceinnigeria |