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LOPEZ, Crislee E  y  TAYPE-RONDAN, Alvaro. Association between religious commitment and having negative attitudes toward homosexual men, in a group f Peruvian medical students. Acta méd. Peru [online]. 2017, vol.34, n.1, pp.33-40. ISSN 1728-5917.

Objective: To assess the association between religious commitment and having a negative attitude towards homosexual men in a group of Peruvian medical students. Materials and methods: This is a cross-sectional analytical study performed in a group of medical students who assisted to a meeting held by the International Federation of Medical Students Associations in Peru. The presence of negative attitudes towards homosexual men was assessed using a dimension of the Attitudes Towards Lesbians and Gay Men Scale. Religious commitment was assessed with the question "Do you consider yourself a religious person?" Factors associated to having negative attitudes towards homosexual men were assessed using prevalence ratios (PR) and their 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) calculated with Poisson regressions with robust variance. Results: Data from 117 participants was analyzed (62.4% were female, mean age: 20.9 ± 1.6 years). We found an association between religious commitment and having negative attitudes towards homosexual men (PR: 1.89, 95% CI: 1.07-3.37). Other associated factors were: being a woman (PR: 0.60, 95% CI: 0.38-0.95) and having a homosexual friend or relative (PR: 0.38, 95% CI: 0.24-0.61). Conclusion: In surveyed students, religious commitment was associated with having negative attitudes towards homosexual men. This suggests that there is a need for interventions that reconcile positive attitudes towards homosexuality with religiosity in medical students

Palabras clave : Homophobia; Homosexuality male; medical students; Peru.

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