Possibilities for dialogue on sexuality and sexual abuse--midwives' and clinicians' experiences.

Objective: to describe midwives' and clinicians' experiences of the possibilities and obstacles for dialogue with young women on sexuality and sexual abuse, focusing on the possibilities.

Design: qualitative study with interview data analysed by qualitative content analysis.

Setting: South-west Sweden.

Young women's perceptions of being asked questions about sexuality and sexual abuse: a content analysis.

Objective: to describe young women's perceptions of being asked questions by midwives or doctors pertaining to sexuality and sexual abuse in connection with visits for gynaecological examination.

Design: a qualitative study. Data comprised responses to open-ended questions in a questionnaire and were analysed by qualitative content analysis.

Donor insemination and parenting: concerns and strategies of lesbian couples. A review of international studies.

The concerns and strategies of lesbian couples at the time of donor insemination, throughout pregnancy and during early parenthood differ in several ways from those of heterosexual couples. For the majority of the lesbian couples insemination was the first option to conceive. They reported having strategies for their children growing up in a heteronormative society, and the parents shared time with and responsibility for the children equally.

Young women's sexual health and their views on dialogue with health professionals.

Background: Many women who experience sexual problems or who have been subjected to sexual abuse, do not seek help, and often health professionals avoid raising such issues. The aim of this study was to describe young women's sexual health and their views on a dialogue about aspects of sexuality in connection with a gynecologic examination.

Method: Cross-sectional study.

Challenging heteronormativity in the consultation: a focus group study among general practitioners.

Objective: To reflect on and further understand mechanisms of heteronormativity in the consultation, with special focus on the relative invisibility of lesbian women.

Design: Tape-recorded focus group interviews transcribed verbatim and analysed using qualitative methods.

Setting: General practitioners (GPs) from the city of Göteborg, Sweden, who had formerly answered a postal questionnaire about lesbian women in the consultation, were invited to take part in subsequent focus groups.

Gender in medical curricula: course organizer views of a gender-issues perspective in medicine in Sweden.

While there is growing awareness of the importance of gender issues in medicine, with new knowledge and new perspectives intensely debated, reports on the implementation of gender issues into medical curricula are scarce. In 1996, the Medical Faculty of Göteborg University, Sweden, determined that a gender-issues perspective be included in medical education. In 1999, course organizers from preclinical and clinical departments of the faculty were interviewed to determine whether they felt that a gender-issues perspective had contributed to their scientific field and, if so, how they implemented it in their teaching.

GPs and lesbian women in the consultation: issues of awareness and knowledge.

Objective: To study awareness of having lesbian women in the consultation among general practitioners (GPs) and their knowledge of lesbian health-related issues.

Design: A mailed questionnaire study using closed and open-ended questions, with an analysis using both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Setting: The city of Göteborg, Sweden.

Integration of information about cardiovascular risk factors: how do highly motivated women in a lifestyle intervention programme act and react?

Objective: To understand the experience of being at risk and of participating in health interventions. How is information about risk factors handled on an individual level with respect to feeling, thinking and doing?

Design: Tape-recorded, open interviews, written out and analysed using a descriptive/analytical method.

Setting: Selected women who had participated in a lifestyle intervention programme aimed at reducing risk factors for cardiovascular disease in Strømstad, a community of 10 000 inhabitants on the west coast of Sweden.