Preconceito contra diversidade sexual e de gênero entre estudantes do curso de fisioterapia

Abstract

Introduction: Prejudice against sexual and gender diversity encourages discriminatory attitudes in health education and practice environments, perpetuating vulnerabilities faced by those who are outside of the social norms. Objective: to investigate the existence of prejudice against sexual and gender diversity among students of the physiotherapy course at a private university in the capital of Goiás. Methods: this is a descriptive cross-sectional study carried out with physiotherapy students at a private university. After ensuring the ethical aspects, the students answered an online form, which included a sociodemographic questionnaire and the revised version of Scale of Prejudice Against Sexual and Gender Diversity (PASGD). Results: the final sample consisted of 135 students from the physiotherapy course, predominantly women (86,8%), heterosexual individuals (87,4%), white people with an average age of 22,7 ± 5.8 years (45,9%), catholics (46,3%) and those who had never heard about sexual and gender diversity within the institution (73,1%). The highest rate of prejudice was found in the item “I would prefer my children to be heterosexual” (64,4%), the second and third highest percentages were related to the items “sex between two men is totally wrong” (35,8%) and “I would go to a bar frequented by transvestites” (35,1%). Conclusion: there is prejudice against sexual and gender diversity among students of the physiotherapy course and there is a lack of an approach to the subject within the university, factors that may have repercussions in technical scientific and humanized unpreparedness of future health professionals in relation to sexual and gender minorities.