The point of view of nursing’ students about the male and female condoms

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Andreis Vicente da Costa ◽  
Helana Maria de Siqueira Ferreira ◽  
Juliana Da Silva Nogueira ◽  
Ednaldo Cavalcante De Araújo

RESUMOEstudo exploratório e descritivo, de abordagem quantitativa, cujo objetivo foi identificar opiniões de estudantes do Curso de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco sobre os preservativos masculino e feminino. A população foi constituída por 427 estudantes de ambos os sexos e a amostra, do tipo intencional, por 88 estudantes do 1º ao 7º período do Curso, que responderam um questionário com 10 assertivas de múltiplas escolhas, após aprovação do projeto de pesquisa pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa do Centro de Ciências da Saúde, em 2003. Os dados foram organizados, analisados e apresentados em tabelas, procedendo à discussão com a literatura pertinente. Quanto aos resultados, houve predominância de estudantes do sexo feminino (92,0%) em detrimento do masculino (08,0%); em ambos os sexos, 45,4% encontravam-se na faixa entre os 17 aos 20 anos, 88,6% eram solteiros e 11,4% casados; 22,7% estavam no primeiro período do Curso, ao passo que 13,6% no sétimo. Com relação à opinião sobre os preservativos, 31,2% dos estudantes e 30,8% das estudantes opinaram em favor que o preservativo masculino diminuía o prazer sexual; 08,9% dos estudantes opinaram que era mais seguro usar dois preservativos masculinos durante as relações sexuais enquanto que nenhuma das estudantes opinou; 06,1% dos estudantes opinaram que, por medida de segurança, deveriam ser usados os preservativos masculino e feminino ao mesmo tempo durante as relações sexuais; 78,7% dos estudantes e 76,5% das estudantes opinaram contra, que os preservativos não precisavam ser usados com quem se ama. Mediante estes resultados, urge a necessidade para que sejam implantadas oficinas educativas que possam atender as necessidades de educação no exercício da sexualidade destes jovens, de maneira sistemática, ao se considerar uma proposta pedagógica interativa, que os conduzam a prevenção e promoção de saúde com mudanças de atitudes em relação aos preservativos e adesão às práticas sexuais seguras. Palavras-chave: Opinião; Estudantes; Enfermagem; Preservativo; Sexualidade.ABSTRACTDescriptive and exploratory study, of quantitative boarding, whose objective was to identify opinions of Nursing Course students of the University Federal of Pernambuco about male and female condoms. 427 students of both genders constituted the population, by means of intentional not probabilistic sample of 88 students from the first to seventh degree, that answered the questionnaire with ten assertives of multiple choices, after the research project to have been approved for the Committee of Ethics in Research of the Health Sciences Center. The data had been organized, analyzed and presented in frequencies relative and absolute, proceeding to the quarrel with pertinent literature. The results had evidenced that predominated the students of the feminine sex (92,0%) in detriment of the masculine ones (08,0%); in both, 45,4% of them were between 17 and 20 years old, 88,6% were single and 11,4% married; 22,7% were in the first period of Course and 13,6% in the seventh ones. Regarding to the opinion on the condoms, from the 48 answers, 31,2% of the male students and 30,8% of the female students agreed in favor of the male condom diminishing the sexual pleasure; 06,1% of the male students answered that by security both condoms should be used at the same time whereas none of the female students thought; 78,7% of the students and 76,5% of the female students had thought against, that the condoms did not need to be used with who loves. By means of these results, urges the necessity so that educative workshops are implanted in order to supply the necessities of education in the sexuality exercise of these youngs in systematic way of considering a proposal pedagogical interactive, that the prevention and the promotion of health with changes of sexual behaviors lead them, attitudes regarding to the condoms and adhesion to practical the sexual insurances are elaborated. Keywords: Nursing; Opinions; Students; Condoms; Sexuality.RESUMENEstudio exploratorio y descriptivo, de la clase cuantitativa, que tenía el objetivo a identificar opiniones de los estudiantes del curso de enfermería de la Universidad Federal de Pernambuco sobre los condónes masculinos y femeninos. 427 estudiantes de ambos géneros constituyeron a población, por medio de la muestra non probabilistic intencional de 88 estudiantes del primer a séptimo grado que contestaron al cuestionario con diez asertivos de opciones múltiples, después del proyecto de investigación haber sido aprobados para el Comité del Ética en la Investigación del Centro de las Ciencias de la Salud, en 2003. Los datos habían sido organizados, analizados y presentados en las frecuencias relativas y absoluto, procediendo la discusión con la literatura pertinente. Los resultados habían evidenciado que predominado los estudiantes del sexo femenino (92,0%) en detrimento del masculino (08,0%); en ambos, 45,4% eran entre 17 y 20 años, 88,6% eran solos y 11,4% casaron; 22,7% eran en el primer grado por supuesto y 13,6% del séptimo grado. El mirar a la opinión sobre los condónes, de las 48 respuestas, 31,2% de los estudiantes y 30,8% de las estudiantes habían pensado en el favor del condón masculino diminuía el placer sexual; 08,9% de los estudiantes habían pensado que él era más seguro utilizar los condónes masculinos durante las relaciones sexuales mientras que ninguno del pensamiento de las estudiantes; 06,1% de los estudiantes habían pensado que, para la medida de seguridad, tendría que ser utilizada los condónes masculinos y femeninos al mismo tiempo durante las relaciones sexuales; 78,7% de los estudiantes y 76,5% de las estudiantes habían pensado contra, que los condónes no necesitaron ser utilizados con quién ama. Por medio de estos resultados, se elabora la necesidad para implantar talleres educativos para proveer las necesidades de la educación en el ejercicio de la sexualidad de estos jóvenes de la manera sistemática de considerar una oferta interactivo pedagógico, que la prevención y la promoción de la salud con los cambios de comportamientos sexuales los conducen, de las actitudes en lo referente a los condónes y de la adherencia a práctico seguras sexuales. Palabras clave: Opiniones; Estudiantes; Enfermeria; Condónes; Sexualidad. 

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Regina Etita Ella ◽  
Felicia Ekwok Lukpata ◽  
Josephine L-U Bassey

This study investigated sleep deprivation and academic performance on nursing students of University of Calabar. A self-structured instrument was administered to a sample of 109 students. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 20.0. Most, 55(50.5. %) of the respondents start depriving themselves of sleep immediately after resumption. On school days, most 53 (48.6%) respondents sleep for 1–3 hours on average; while 40(36.7%) respondents sleep for 4–6 hours on average. During weekends most, 69(63.3%) respondents sleep for 4-6 hours on average, however, during examinations, majority 73(67. %), sleep for 1–3 hours on average. 64(58.6%) take different substances to keep awake. More male 69(63.3%) respondents start depriving themselves of sleep immediately after resumption, as against 50(46%) female respondents. Male students have an average sleep of 5.02 hours during schools days; 5.07 hours during weekends, and 2.39 hours during examinations, while female students have an average sleep of 5.25 hours during schools days, 5.43 hours during weekends, and 4.77 hours during examinations. Male students have a lower mean (SD) hours of sleep of (4.16±.35) compared to female students mean (SD) hours of (5.15±.49). The result further showed a statistically significant relationship between sleep deprivation and academic performance, also, a statistically significant influence of sleep deprivation on academic performance of male and female nursing students. Recommendations: nursing students should be properly counseled on the importance of adequate sleep to their academic performance. They should only deprive themselves of sleep during school days and less during examination.


2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 54-67
Author(s):  
Kaukab Abid Azhar ◽  
Nayab Iqbal

The study aims at studying gender differences in the ways male and female students take turns and participate in a mixed-gender classroom. Two groups of first-year English compulsory classes held at two different departments (Geography and Economics) at the University of Karachi took part in the study. The results revealed that in the Geography Department, where there was a female teacher, male students were more dominating as compared to the female students who hardly participated in the class. They took more turns and participated better in the classroom discussion. In addition, they also interrupted the teacher and the female counterparts when they tried to contribute to the discussion. On the other hand, at the Department of Economics, female students had more number of turns. They dominated the classroom as compared to the male students. Besides, the study revealed that the gender of the teacher played an important part in shaping the discourse taking place in the classroom.


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Khawla Izzat Al-Qadoumi

The study aimed at recognizing the degree of the teaching staff members in Irbid National University employment of citizenship values in teaching from the point of view of students, and also specify if there are differences with statistical significance ascribed to the variables of the study, they are: sex (male & female) and type of the faculty (human and scientific). To achieve the study's objectives, both researchers applied the descriptive-analytical method, employing a questionnaire prepared by both researchers. The instrument of study covered (21) items, they had been distributed after assuring procedures of validity and reliability on a class on a random class sample, its component is (512) male and female students from the community of study amounting to (2592) during the second semester of the studying year (2017-2018). The most prominent results were that the teaching staff member's citizenship values came at a medium degree through the teaching process. Also, differences with statistical significance did not appear ascribed to both variables of sex (male & female) and the faculty (human & scientific). And in light of results, the researchers recommend the University Administration entrust the subject of citizenship greater importance and bid the professors to evaluate those values and enhance them in cultural and academic domains and activities, through the different plans of the studying subjects.


Author(s):  
Anas Adnan Odibat

The study aimed to identify the reality of crisis management in the University of Islamic Sciences from the students' point of view, and the study relied on the descriptive approach, and the study population consisted of (3500) male and female students admitted to the university, and the study sample reached (373) male and female students, who were chosen In a random way, the results showed that the average dimensions of the reality of crisis management, respectively: the reality of crisis management after its occurrence, with an average of (3.65), then the reality of crisis management before its occurrence, with an average of (3.56), and finally the reality of crisis management during its occurrence, with an average of (3.10), The results also showed the absence of statistically significant differences for the gender variable, and the presence of statistically significant differences for the variable of the academic level in favor of doctoral students, and in light of the results of the study, it recommends the necessity of holding counseling programs and workshops and giving educational lectures by the university for the direction of crises and how Dealing with it, providing a trained and qualified private team at the university for crisis management.


Author(s):  
Ibrahim Abdulrahman Alhodhaibi

This study aimed to identify the level of health awareness for male and female students of community college in Al-Quway'iyah from their point of view. It also aimed to identify the presence of statistically significant differences among responses of these students towards the level of practicing health awareness skills due to the following variables (gender, major and academic level). The researcher used the descriptive approach and applied the questionnaire to a sample of male and female students of community college in Al-Quway'iyah. The researcher achieved the following results: - Total average of study sample responses to sentences of the first axe related to (personal hygiene) was (2.5595) in favour of female students. - Total average of study sample responses to sentences of the second axe related to (body nourishment) was (2.2069) in favour of male students. - Total average of study sample responses to sentences of the third axe related to (practicing sports) was (2.0345) in favour of male students. - Total average of study sample responses to sentences of the fourth axe related to (disease prevention) was (2.0879) in favour of male students. - Total average of study sample responses to sentences of the four axes of the study was (2.2222) in a neutral degree. - There are statistically significant differences among the study sample responses in the first axe due to the (gender) variable in favour of female students. - There are statistically significant differences among the study sample responses in the second, third and fourth axes of the - study due to the (gender) variable in favour of male students. - There are not statistically significant differences among the study sample responses due to the (major and academic level) variables.    


2018 ◽  
pp. 80-89
Author(s):  
Khisro Kaleem Raza Et al.,

Anxiety is a feeling of uneasiness experienced by an individual regarding his/her future-oriented tasks, where an individual feels apprehension regarding the worse happening which may not actually happen. The correlates of anxiety refer to the factors which lead towards the feelings of worry, whereby the social correlates of anxiety are the social factors which may lead towards anxiety. The current study was designed to investigate the social correlates of anxiety among university students. A total of 758 students from the University of Peshawar Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were taken as a sample of the study including 442 male and 316 female students from all the disciplines of the stated university from its final year all masters programs. A proportionate sample of 30% from both male and female students was taken and the data were collected through the use of self-report four point liker scale inventory. The social correlates of anxiety among university students were divided into three broad categories including family (parents), friends and teachers. Data were collected, tabulated and analyzed for the stated correlates of anxiety among university students which revealed that all of the three social correlates of anxiety prevailed among male students. Finally, suggestions were made and recommendations were presented for minimizing the severity of anxiety correlates among university students.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Khairil Razali

This study tried to explore the current facts of significant different between male and female students at university. This reality has been happening at most of major studies in the university. Therefore, the study would like to bring into an explanation of how the differences between male and female students in the classroom at English Department. The study applied documents analysis and interviews in collecting sufficient data to clearly picture the gaps of quantity, quality and impacts. Samples were selected randomly of the fourth and the sixth semester students where I was teaching courses. Moreover, the interviews were purposively selected which represented equal number of each class. As a result, some interesting basic facts show that there are quantitatively different of male and female students. As a matter of fact, it leads to major impacts in term of academic achievements and learning attitudes and interactions. The data show that female more advanced compared to male students. On the other hand, male students stated that they would be “reluctant to intensively interact” if there were gap of number of male and female students.


Author(s):  
María-Camino Escolar-Llamazares ◽  
María-Ángeles Martínez-Martín ◽  
María-Begoña Medina-Gómez ◽  
María-Yolanda González-Alonso ◽  
Elvira Mercado-Val ◽  
...  

Background: The passage through university, as a complex experience, can heighten personal susceptibility to eating disorders. The objective of this research is to determine how gender, age, year of course, and center or faculty can influence the risk of an eating disorder among university students. Method: A transversal and descriptive study with a probabilistic sample of 516 Spanish students from 26 university degrees is performed, by administering the Inventory Eating Disorder-Reference criterion (EDI-3-RF) to the students. Results: It was found that the female students enrolled in second-year grades presented a greater obsession with thinness and body dissatisfaction, that the male students did more physical exercise to control their weight, and that those under 20 years and the students from both the Health and Law Faculties presented greater bulimic behavior. Conclusions: It is necessary to implement preventive measures adapted to the university students.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (07) ◽  
pp. 4887-4894
Author(s):  
Mustafa Çalık

Objective The outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused considerable public health problems. Departing from the case of COVID-19, this paper aims to not only find out the psychological impacts of the changes in universities’ educational programs on undergraduate students in Turkey but also make a scientific contribution to determining what kinds of supports can be given to university students in other possible social catastrophes that could take place in any future time. Material- Methods 1117 university students over the age of 17 from 23 universities  took part in this study by completing the online questionnaire we prepared on the Internet. The relationship between university students’ stress and anxiety levels and their age, gender and class year were examined. Result While average BAI scores of male students were 11.56, female students’ average BAI scores were 16.65. Average STAI-1 points of male and female students were 46,71 and 49,04, respectively. As a result, it was found that there were significant differences between BAI and STAI-1 scores of male and female students.(p<0.05) Conclusion ''Our study found that more than two/three of the  university students suffered from anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 outbreak.'. In this regard, it can said that university students should learn to deal with such mental and emotional problems as stress, anxiety and fear, which more likely require psychological and physical effort, by taking necessary measures during important social catastrophes such as Covid-19 outbreak.


Author(s):  
Fatema K. Alhoish

This study aimed at identifying the level of social responsibility, procrastination and achievement motivation among Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University students in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. It also aimed to explore the correlational relations between social responsibility, procrastination and achievement motivation and to uncover the differences between male and female students on these three variables. The study was conducted on a sample of 1880 male and female students. Social responsibility, and procrastination scales, as well as the achievement motivation test were employed after verifying their psychometric properties. The results showed that while the university students practice both social responsibility and procrastination at a medium level, they practice achievement motivation at a high level. The study further showed a significant, negative correlation between social responsibility and procrastination, and significant positive correlation between responsibility and achievement motivation. Furthermore, the study showed statistically significant differences between males and females in social responsibility and procrastination in favour of male students; and statistically significant differences in the achievement motivation in favor of females.


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