Objective To explore if the academic exposure to legal abortion affects the knowledge and attitudes of medical students. Method To asses this relationship, both qualitative and quantitative approaches were performed. We analyzed a medical student cohort enrolled in gynecology and obstetrics at two accredited universities in Bucaramanga, Colombia during the second half of 2011. Students were invited to participate in two anonymous surveys. One survey was conducted in the first three weeks of the semester, and the second was done in the last three weeks. A quantitative approach was taken by a group interview of two random groups of participants. One group was composed of medical students of gynecology and obstetrics (fourth year of medicine), and the other group was composed of medical students in their last year (internal medical students). Results The items pregnancy with risk to the mother´s life, or affected by a non-viable fetal malformation, or result of rape were recognized and accepted. 46% of the participants changed their attitude about legal abortion at the end of the semester. Three out of every four participants changed their attitude to accept the decriminalized conditions, while one out of every four people had the opposite change of opinion. Medical student´s don´t believe that general practitioners are trained to advice patients in these cases. Conclusions Educating and training general practitioners in issues related to legal abortion may decrease the risk of inadequate medical assessment in cases of legal abortion.
<p><strong>Objetivo:</strong> establecer la prevalencia de vida de orgasmo femenino y de dificultades orgásmicas en universitarias del área metropolitana de Bucara manga (Colombia).</p><p><strong>Materiales y métodos:</strong> estudio de corte transversal. Se administró un cuestionario de autorreporte a una muestra de mujeres universitarias de Bucaramanga. Además de la prevalencia de orgasmo, se midieron variables sociodemográficas como edad, orientación sexual, religiosidad y estado civil; y variables relacionadas con la conducta y la estimulación sexual. Se realizó un análisis descriptivo y un análisis exploratorio mediante análisis bivariado y multivariado para medir la asociación de variables de interés con el orgasmo.</p><p><strong>Resultados:</strong> se encuestaron 1.038 mujeres, con una edad mediana de 20 años. La prevalencia de vida de orgasmo fue del 76 % (IC 95 %: 73,5-78,7) y la prevalencia de dificultades para alcanzar el orgasmo fue del 24 % (IC 95 %: 21,3-26,5). De las mujeres que no habían tenido orgasmo o tenían dificultades para alcanzarlo el 6,2 % habían consultado al ginecólogo por esta razón. En el análisis multivariado se encontró asociación entre el orgasmo y la edad (OR = 1,19; IC 95%: 1,08-1,31), la masturbación (OR = 2,55; IC 95 %: 1,34-4,84) y las relaciones sexuales con una pareja (OR = 4,2; IC 95 %: 2,28-7,72).</p><p><strong>Conclusión: </strong>una de cada 3 mujeres universitarias no han tenido experiencia orgásmica y tres de cada 10 mujeres con experiencia orgásmica reportan dificultad para alcanzarlo. Es importante indagar sobre estos problemas sexuales en la consulta de ginecología.</p>
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