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The effect of a spaced sex education course on medical students' sexual knowledge and attitudes
Author(s) -
MARCOTTE D. B.,
GEYER P. R.,
KILPATRICK D. G.,
SMITH ALMA D.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1976.tb00543.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , psychology , sex education , diversity (politics) , medical education , scale (ratio) , cognition , clinical psychology , medicine , pedagogy , psychiatry , sociology , physics , quantum mechanics , anthropology , population , environmental health
Summary This paper reviews the literature and emphasizes the rapid expansion of medical sex education, which has created a diversity of course content, curriculum timing and strategies. One variable of medical sex education programmes is whether they are massed or spaced courses. The authors conducted testing on 159 first year medical students who took a spaced sex education course. Significant changes in cognitive knowledge as well as attitudinal tolerance of others is reported. No changes were found in styles of thinking as measured by the Rokeach Dogmatism Scale.