Menopause: attitude and knowledge in a group of final-year medical students at the University of Antioquia
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Curriculum, sexuality, replacement therapyAbstract
This article reports the results of a survey carried out in the group of final-year medical students of the School of Medicine at the University of Antioquia, in Medellín, Colombia, in the second semester of the year 1997. The aim of the study was, on the first hand, to help in the construction of knowledge about the climateric period in women, and additionally, to contribute to the change of the medical curriculum in which the institution is involved. We have the hypothesis that the personal history of the individual limits the attitude and constrains the possibilities for the development of motivation and skills on a given subject.
The instrument was presented to all and each one of the students in the group and it consisted of a survey and a Licker's scale to search for social, cultural and demographic variables, as well as for scientific data. It was found that the level of performance in the scientific test measured in a scale from 0 to 5, was 2.85 + 0.83 while the attitude toward therapy was low in 44%, and high in 40% of the students. The correlation between attitudes and knowledge was positive, but the demographic data was too homogeneous to make any association.
Author Biographies
Jorge E. Ossa
José Vitelino Echeverry
Gloria Stella Penagos
Elizabeth Gutiérrez
Federico Uribe
Jorge E. Botero
Claudia M. Céspedes
John Wilson Osorio
Adriana Patricia Ríos
Margarita J. Ayora
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