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Survey of knowledge, attitude and behavior of homosexual seminar's audiences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

A. Andri*
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine Krida Wacana Christian University, Jakarta, Indonesia

Abstract

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Objective

To know about knowledge, act and behavior of homosexual seminar audience about homosexual behavior.

Method

This was a cross sectional survey. Participants were chosen by purposive sampling method. Survey was conducted using list of questionnaires which was made according to references used in the seminar presentation.

Result

One hundred and sixty five participants conducted the survey. There were 77 males (46.7%) and 88 females (53.3%). The mean of age of the participants was 21.22 (SD 3.7). Most of the participants were college students (147 students, 89.1%) and never married before (96.4%). Sixty six participants (40%) said that homosexual behavior was induced by environmental situation, fifty eight participants (35.2%) said that it was a biological factor and rest of them did not answer the question. One hundred and four (63%) participants said that homosexual behavior could be cured, twenty four of participants (16.4%) said it could not be cured and the rest of them said did not have any idea. More than half of participants (87 participants, 52.7%) said that homosexual behavior was a mental disorder and most of the participants (87 participants, 79.4%) said that homosexual behavior need to be cured. Most of the participants said that they felt fine if they meet and talked with homosexual man or woman, nineteen participants felt afraid, ten participants felt disgust and twenty five participants felt pity on them.

Conclusion

Most of the participants considered homosexual behavior as mental disorder and need to be cured.

Type
P01-506
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association2011
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