A comparative study to assess attitude towards sex among male and female medical interns in a tertiary care centre

INTRODUCTION: One of the most fundamental human experiences is sexuality.However,in India the word “sex” is still considered taboo and is only addressed in private.Medical interns,as the future of health care,play a critical role in promoting sexual knowledges and attitudes.All doctors and medical s...

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Autores principales: Abishek kumaran1, G V, Kumar2, Gireesh, Vardhan3, M Vishnu
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9129540/
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.341553
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description INTRODUCTION: One of the most fundamental human experiences is sexuality.However,in India the word “sex” is still considered taboo and is only addressed in private.Medical interns,as the future of health care,play a critical role in promoting sexual knowledges and attitudes.All doctors and medical students must have adequate sexual knowledge and a favourable attitude towards sex in order to provide patients with accurate sex related information. AIM: The aim of the study is to assess attitude regarding sex(conservative vs liberal) among male and female interns. METHODOLOGY: A cross-sectional comparative study conducted in Kakatiya medical college,telangana which includes 30 male interns and 30 female interns. The scale used to assess attitude regarding sex is Sexual Attitude Scale(SAS) RESULTS: Will be presented later
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spelling pubmed-91295402022-05-25 A comparative study to assess attitude towards sex among male and female medical interns in a tertiary care centre Abishek kumaran1, G V Kumar2, Gireesh Vardhan3, M Vishnu Indian J Psychiatry Free Papers Compiled INTRODUCTION: One of the most fundamental human experiences is sexuality.However,in India the word “sex” is still considered taboo and is only addressed in private.Medical interns,as the future of health care,play a critical role in promoting sexual knowledges and attitudes.All doctors and medical students must have adequate sexual knowledge and a favourable attitude towards sex in order to provide patients with accurate sex related information. AIM: The aim of the study is to assess attitude regarding sex(conservative vs liberal) among male and female interns. METHODOLOGY: A cross-sectional comparative study conducted in Kakatiya medical college,telangana which includes 30 male interns and 30 female interns. The scale used to assess attitude regarding sex is Sexual Attitude Scale(SAS) RESULTS: Will be presented later Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-03 2022-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9129540/ http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.341553 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Indian Journal of Psychiatry https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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