Exposure of medical students to sexism and sexual harassment and their association with mental health: a cross-sectional study at a Swiss medical school.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the self-reported prevalence of sexism and sexual harassment at a Swiss medical school, and to investigate their association with mental health. Research hypotheses were an association between sexism/sexual harassment and poor mental health and a higher prevalence of sexism/sexual harassment in clinical rotations.

Design

Cross-sectional study as a part of ETMED-L project, an ongoing cohort study of interpersonal competences and mental health of medical students.

Setting

Single-centre Swiss study using an online survey submitted to medical students.

Participants

From 2096 registered students, 1059 were respondents (50.52%). We excluded 26 participants (25 due to wrong answers to attention questions, and 1 who did not answer the sexism exposu

SUBMITTER: Barbier JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10151891 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature