NCT04417426

Sexual Behavior Among Medical Students in Mexico

Sexual Behavior: Challenges in Prevention and Control Among Medical Students in Mexico

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 519 (actual)
• Sponsor: Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aims to identify factors that influence students to undertake or not sexually transmitted diseases screening tests and to have an actual outlook of how Mexican university students live their sexual life. Moreover, the investigators aim to identify potential epidemiological risks and challenges to achieve adequate prevention and control of sexually transmitted diseases in this population. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted at a private university in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, from December 2019 to April 2020.

Detailed description

The investigators will invite the students to complete it and leave it in a black painted box to maintain privacy. The investigators will inquire if the participants considered having adequate knowledge about STDs, sexual intercourse onset, sexual behavior, number of sex partners, sexual orientation, use of condoms and contraceptives, sexual intercourse under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and reasons why students do not get sexually transmitted diseases screenings.

Conditions

• Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Survey	A survey was conducted, which was filled voluntarily and completely anonymously; the demographic data asked were: sex, age, religion, and semester. We included questions about their sexual behavior: if they considered having enough knowledge about STDs, sexual intercourse onset, number of sexual partners in the last year, the total number of sexual partners, sexual orientation, the use of condoms and contraceptives, exclusive or non-exclusive sexual intercourses, frequency of STDs screening, and then if they know the location of STD testing centers.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-12-02
• Primary completion: 2020-04-30
• Completion: 2020-05-22
• First posted: 2020-06-04
• Last updated: 2020-06-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Mexico