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Table 4 Participants’ perceptions of adequacy of training on sexual history taking received during their specialty postings

From: Are medical students confident in taking a sexual history? An assessment on attitude and skills from an upper middle income country

Specialty

Agree frequency (%)

Neutral frequency (%)

Disagree frequency (%)

Mean score ± SD

Obstetrics and gynecology

217 (84)

44 (12)

18 (4.8)

3.10 ± 0.81

Primary care

291 (77)

72 (19)

16 (3.8)

2.94 ± 0.79

General medicine

232 (61)

102 (27)

44 (12.1)

2.60 ± 0.86

Psychiatry

185 (49)

117 (31)

73 (19)

2.35 ± 0.98

Public health

131 (35)

126 (33)

119 (32)

2.04 ± 1.02

General surgery

95 (25)

134 (35)

148 (39)

1.84 ± 0.94

Pediatrics

47 (12)

103 (27)

227 (60)

1.37 ± 0.98

Orthopedics

37 (9.5)

107 (28)

231 (61)

1.32 ± 0.88