Family relationship : its influence on the first year student's level of sensitivity to domestic violence /
Vivian A. Seno
OBJECTIVE: To determine the influence of the quality of family relationship on the level of sensitivity to domestic violence among first year medical students DESIGN: Descriptive correlational SETTING: Cebu Doctors College of Medicine PARTICIPANTS: 118 First year medical students enrolled for 1st-2nd semester 1998-1999 MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Significance of correlation between the two variables of the study, quality of family relationship and sensitivity to domestic violence RESULTS: Ninety percent of the respondents have good quality of family relationship, and majority of them (96.6%) had a high level of sensitivity to domestic violence CONCLUSION: The quality of students family relationship does not exert any influence on their level of sensitivity to domestic violence.