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The gender roles attitudes of medicals students: A cross-sectional study
Objective: Gender roles; refers to the roles traditionally
associated with women and men. In studies conducted
to determine the attitudes of university students
towards gender roles in our country, it has been shown
in different studies that male students have a more traditional
view of gender roles than female students. In
this study, it was aimed to determine the attitudes of
university students studying gender roles and to investigate
the effect of medical education on these attitudes.
Method:This study is cross-sectional and conducted
with the first and sixth year students who are studying
medicine at Eskisehir Osmangazi University (ESOGÜ)
Faculty of Medicine. Sociodemographic form and
Gender Roles Attitude Scale (TCRSS) were applied to participants.
Results: There was a significant difference
between the first and sixth grades in terms of total
TCRSS score and subscale scores (p> 0.05). There was no
difference between the first and sixth grades (p> 0.05)
in terms of averages of the scale scores for males (p>
0.05) when the scores of the groups were compared
with the scores of the TCRSS and subscales after the participants
had separated by sex. In the females, 6th-grade
students had significantly higher traditional gender subscale
scores (p = 0.033). Discussion: This study is, to our
knowledge, the first study in the literature investigating
attitudes towards gender roles in medical students in
our country. In terms of content, it is recommended that
medical education be organized to provide a transformative
contribution to the attitudes of students towards
gender roles