Harmanci Seren Arzu Kader, Eşkin Bacaksiz Feride, Çakir Hanife, Yilmaz Sevil, Sükut Özge, Turan Suzan, Maghsoudi Nurten
Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Fenerbahce University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Department of Nursing Management, Hamidiye Faculty of Nursing, University of Health Sciences Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey.
J Homosex. 2023 Nov 10;70(13):3108-3124. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2022.2087480. Epub 2022 Jun 27.
Since the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) community may be exposed to violence, discrimination, stigma, exclusion, and maltreatment due to their sexual orientation while accessing healthcare services, understanding, and improving the attitudes of future's health care professionals toward LGBTI individuals seem essential. This descriptive and cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the homophobia among medical, nursing, pharmacy, and healthcare sciences students and examine the related factors. The study included 2,531 students from medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and other health sciences (midwifery, nutrition and dietetics, physiotherapy, management of healthcare facilities) disciplines. Homophobia was measured with the Hudson and Ricketts Homophobia Scale. After getting ethical and institutional approvals, data were collected and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical tests. Medical students had the lowest homophobia score, and their mean score was significantly lower than other students. There was a significant difference between students' scores according to years of study, age, sex, acquaintance with LGBTI individuals, providing healthcare services to an LGBTI person, and opinions on providing care. Although homophobia scores of nursing, pharmacy, and other health sciences students were lower than the medical students', policies and expansive content regarding LGBTI should be in place in all health science educational institutes, including medical schools, to prevent students from holding homophobic and prejudicial attitudes against LGBTI individuals.
由于女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、跨性别者和双性人（LGBTI）群体在获取医疗服务时可能因其性取向而遭受暴力、歧视、污名化、排斥和虐待，了解并改善未来医疗保健专业人员对LGBTI个体的态度似乎至关重要。这项描述性横断面研究旨在调查医学、护理、药学和卫生保健科学专业学生中的恐同症情况，并研究相关因素。该研究纳入了来自医学、护理、药学和其他卫生科学（助产、营养与饮食学、物理治疗、医疗设施管理）专业的2531名学生。使用哈德森和里基茨恐同量表来测量恐同症。在获得伦理和机构批准后，收集数据并使用描述性和推断性统计测试进行分析。医学生的恐同症得分最低，其平均得分显著低于其他学生。根据学习年限、年龄、性别、与LGBTI个体的相识情况、为LGBTI人士提供医疗服务以及对提供护理的看法，学生得分存在显著差异。尽管护理、药学和其他卫生科学专业学生的恐同症得分低于医学生，但包括医学院在内的所有卫生科学教育机构都应制定有关LGBTI的政策并提供广泛的内容，以防止学生对LGBTI个体持有恐同和偏见态度。
