Medical and midwifery students need increased sexual medicine education to overcome barriers hindering bringing up sexual health issues – A national study of final-year medical and midwifery students in Finland

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2022.10.021
• Publication Date: 2022-10-29T21:40:55Z
• Authors: Sanna-Mari Manninen; Katja Kero; Markus Riskumäki; Tero Vahlberg; Päivi Polo-Kantola
• Keywords: Sexual medicine

Physicians and midwives meet patients with sexual health issues regularly; however, they may have limited medicine education. The study's aim was to evaluate the self-reported competence of medical midwifery students bring up their assess barriers that hinder these discussions. need for additional education also evaluated.A web-based questionnaire sent last-year graduating between December 2018 May 2019 in Finland. In total, 233 131 participated study. Three fields were evaluated: discussing treating issues, bringing problems, medicine.The better than patients' problems. For students, most important hindering lack i) time (89.2 %), ii) experience (88.1 iii) knowledge (82.1 %). (73.3 fear failing respond (64.9 (62.5 A higher percentage (96.2 %) reported an interest compared (55.4 (OR 13.89, 95 % CI 5.32-35.71, P <.001). Majority (76.5 almost half (45.0 receiving too little 7.30, 4.00-13.33, <.001).Both student groups several expressed a more education, particularly students.