Perceptions of sex education among college students: A case study of a medical school

Table 1 Survey and analysis results of medical students’ sexual knowledge by medical students of different specialties (your understanding of sexual knowledge before adulthood comes from)

Major	In school sex		Parent		Internet		Wordofmouth		Books		Others		Total
	Number	Proportion (%)	Number	Proportion (%)	Number	Proportion (%)	Number	Proportion (%)	Number	Proportion (%)	Number	Proportion (%)
Clinical medicine	160	20.83	58	7.55	292	38.02	169	22.01	85	11.07	4	0.52	768
Oral medicine	47	26.11	24	13.33	61	33.89	26	14.44	22	12.22		0.00	180
Anesthesiology	42	20.79	19	9.41	70	34.65	37	18.32	32	15.84	2	0.99	202
Medical imaging	23	24.73	6	6.45	31	33.33	22	23.66	11	11.83		0.00	93
Medical laboratory technology	27	25.96	12	11.54	33	31.73	18	17.31	12	11.54	2	1.92	104
Preventive medicine	25	32.05	9	11.54	23	29.49	12	15.38	9	11.54		0.00	78
Biotechnology	13	23.64	7	12.73	18	32.73	10	18.18	7	12.73		0.00	55
Psychiatry	32	23.36	15	10.95	48	35.04	25	18.25	16	11.68	1	0.73	137
Health inspection and quarantine	22	22.92	6	6.25	33	34.38	24	25.00	11	11.45		0.00	96
Traditional Chinese medicine	22	25.58	14	16.28	24	27.91	17	19.77	9	10.47		0.00	86
Nursing (including major upgrade to undergraduate level)	24	22.02	11	10.09	35	32.11	22	20.18	16	14.58	1	0.92	109
Midwifery	22	30.14	8	10.96	26	35.62	10	13.70	7	9.59		0.00	73
Geriatric care and management	12	22.22	8	14.81	16	29.63	8	14.81	10	18.52		0.00	54
Food quality and safety	18	31.03	8	13.79	17	29.31	11	18.97	4	6.90		0.00	58
Medical information engineering	15	27.78	5	9.26	17	31.48	11	20.37	6	11.11		0.00	54
Pharmacy	30	23.44	10	7.81	43	33.59	27	21.09	18	14.06		0.00	128
Rehabilitation therapy (including rehabilitation therapy techniques)	36	22.50	15	9.28	55	34.38	35	21.88	19	11.88		0.00	160
Bioinformatics	8	22.22	5	13.89	12	33.33	7	19.44	4	11.11		0.00	36
Total	578	23.39	240	9.71	854	34.56	491	19.87	298	12.06	10	0.40	2471