Barrón-Velázquez E, Salín-Pascual RJ, Guadarrama-López L

Language: Spanish
References: 21
Page: 267-276
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Homophobia is defined as “obsessive aversion to homosexuals” or rejection of homosexuality; hostility towards homosexuals. This can extend to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT). That general condition is named “transphobia.” Not only is the fact of expressing dislike toward LGBT people, but also homophobia affect the civil rights of these individuals, health systems, where it has been the perception that serious impact on health and preventive care. It was already reported the presence of homophobia and transphobia in the medical community, which is related to the lack of knowledge about these people. This also happens in other professions that are involved in the care of the LGBT population, as lawyers and psychologists.
Objetive: To determine the level of knowledge in a sample of university students, about the LGBT population and its relationship to the presence of homophobia and trans phobia through a survey in the same group of students.
Methods: Ninety-nine first-year students in the careers of medicine, psychology, law and first-year residents of the specializations of internal medicine and psychiatry were included. A self-report survey that was conducted to explore; to meet people from the community LGBT, concepts related to conditions of sex-gender diversity and biological causes domain to define the relationship between these and the presence of homophobia/transphobia.
Results: We found that 100% of residents in psychiatry had been in contact with someone in the LGBT communities. And 77.2% of psychologists; 35% of law students; 10% of internal medicine residents and 35% of medical students. Homophobia and transphobia was found in 5% of the psychologists; 15% of psychiatrists, 50% of internists, 70% of GPs and 85% of law students found with r²: 0.48 (p < 0.001) for both variables. For the correlation of concepts related to the conditions of sex-gender diversity was observed that more than 50% of the population knew the conceptual differences with a ratio r²: 0.83 (p < 0.001 ) with homophobia and transphobia. As the domain of the biological causes of LGBT diversity, the results being replicated psychiatry residents, those with the highest scores with percentage of 95%, 70% psychology, 50% internal medicine, general medicine and 32% right 20% and linear regression model is r²: 0.96 (p < 0.001).
Conclusions: We found that the more knowledge about biological concepts, and information etiological decreased homophobia and transphobia. This is important to consider the impact on the medical, psychological and legal assistance to these subjects, which must be restructured in future curricula.

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