Gaceta sanitaria
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Multicenter Study
Tolerance of intimate partner violence and sexist attitudes among health sciences students from three Spanish universities.
To explore university health science students' intimate partner violence tolerance and sexist attitudes and to examine their trend throughout the academic years. ⋯ Tolerance of intimate partner violence and sexist attitudes were very high, especially among psychology students. These indicators were significantly better among medicine students of higher courses, suggesting a positive effect of medical training. Intimate partner violence in the university education of the future health professionals should be addressed. .
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To discover whether future doctors in Galicia (Spain) are willing to express conscientious objection to voluntary termination of pregnancy (VTP). The medical students' level of knowledge regarding conscientious objection in health care was also examined, and their knowledge regarding the costs patients would incur if unable to exercise their right to VTP. ⋯ The problem of referring pregnant women to private healthcare, as a consequence of conscientious objection to VTP, is presented as critical in Spain, and in Galicia in particular. The future physicians showed that they strongly favoured not objecting to this healthcare practice, which will enable the problem to be resolved in the near future.