Abstract
Objective: Determinate the perception and attitudes towards street sexual harassment among female students of the Human Medicine Faculty at San Martin de Porres University. Methods: Descriptive and transversal study in which the previously validated “Likert” questionnaires, “Scale of Acceptance of Modern Myths about Sexual Aggression” and “Street Harassment Scale” where applied in a virtual way to 227 female students from the 4th, 5th, 6th academic year of the Human Medicine Faculty at San Martin de Porres University. The analysis was made in the SPSS v22 program using descriptive statistics like media, mode, tables of frequency and percentage to determine the prevalence of street harassment and the level of acceptance of beliefs about sexual harassment. Results: We found that 91% of the participants considered that they had been (sexually) harassed at least once in the last year. 48% of participants were absolutely disagree with the statements about the myths of sexual aggression. The th percentage of students that mentioned never have been harassed lowered for every year of study, from 13% in the 4 year th to 7.9% in the 6 year. Most of the students came from Central South Lima of which 88% were harassed at least once the past year. Approximately, about half of the participants, independent of the mean of transport they have used, said that they had been harassed once last year. The group of 22 years old was the most affected ¹Estudiante de la FMH USMP Conclusion: Even though the participants considered that the Street harassment only happened a few times the past year, we didn't underestimate the fact that for almost everyone this harassment had happened at least once. Also, the majority considered to be strongly disagree regarding the myths about sexual harassment. So, it appears that street harassment, despite acting as a social problem that affects the physical and mental well-being of the Young female community, hasn't been properly managed by the authorities yet.
Highlights
En la tabla 4, observamos que casi la mitad (48%) de las participantes estaba totalmente en desacuerdo con las afirmaciones acerca de los mitos sobre agresión sexual, mientras que un 16% se mantuvieron neutrales respecto al tema y un 12% se inclinaba a estar de acuerdo con las afirmaciones
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Summary
Objetivo: Determinar la percepción y las actitudes frente al acoso sexual callejero que tienen las estudiantes mujeres del bloque clínico de la Facultad de Medicina Humana de la Universidad San Martín de Porres. Material y Métodos: Estudio descriptivo de corte transversal en el cual se aplicaron los cuestionarios, tipo Likert previamente validados, la “Escala de aceptación de mitos modernos sobre la agresión sexual” y la “Escala de acoso callejero”, de forma virtual a 227 estudiantes mujeres pertenecientes al 4to, 5to y 6to año académico de la Facultad de Medicina Humana de la Universidad San Martín de Porres. Resultados: 91% de las participantes consideraban haber sido acosadas al menos una vez en el pasado año. Aproximadamente la mitad de las participantes, independiente al medio de transporte que hayan usado, indicaron haber sido acosadas una vez el pasado año. Perception and attitudes towards street sexual harassment among female students of a private Human Medicine Faculty
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