Teaching sex education improves medical students' confidence in dealing with sexual health issues
Faulder, Georgina S., Riley, Simon C., Stone, Nicole and Glaiser, Anna (2004) Teaching sex education improves medical students' confidence in dealing with sexual health issues. Contraception, 70, (2), 135-139. (doi:10.1016/j.contraception.2004.03.010).
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Medical students at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland can volunteer to participate in an undergraduate options project that gives them the opportunity to provide sex education for secondary school (high school) pupils. Using a questionnaire presenting a set of fictional case histories, we assessed medical students' theoretical confidence at dealing with sexual health consultations. Students who had participated in delivering peer-led sex education felt significantly more confident at discussing sexual health issues with patients of all age groups (p = 0.001) than students who had not participated in the project. All students felt more comfortable seeing patients of the same gender as themselves but more than half felt that their training left them generally ill-equipped to handle sexual health consultations
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0010-7824 (print) |
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| Keywords: | sex education, medical student education |
| Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Psychology |
| Item ID: | 45045 |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Mar 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 06:55 |
| Contributors: | Faulder, Georgina S. (Author) Riley, Simon C. (Author) Stone, Nicole (Author) Glaiser, Anna (Author) |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | Simon.C.Riley@ed.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/45045 |
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