Questionnaire for Doctors: Care for Girls, Boys, and Adolescents in Vulnerable Situations
Welcome to the questionnaire designed for health professionals. Your participation is essential to understand and improve medical care for cases of girls, boys, and adolescents who have suffered physical and psychological problems resulting from prostitution or engaging in unprotected sexual relations with older individuals.
The information collected will help us identify the needs, obstacles, and areas for improvement in the comprehensive care of these cases. This questionnaire is completely anonymous and is intended for strictly research purposes. Discretion is recommended.
We invite you to answer each question with the utmost sincerity and detail. Thank you very much for your collaboration!
What is your medical specialty?
How many years of experience do you have working with children and adolescents?
- 0
- 14
- 26
- 11
Have you treated cases of girls, boys, or adolescents affected by prostitution or unprotected sexual relations with older individuals?
How often have you observed cases with physical or psychological complications arising from these contexts?
What is the average age of patients you have treated in these cases?
What physical problems have you observed in these cases? (Multiple selection)
Other medical complications
- death
What psychological problems have you detected in these patients? (Multiple selection)
Low self-esteem
- low self-esteem
Do you believe that psychological problems are directly related to prostitution or relationships with older individuals?
What type of interventions have you provided to these patients? (Check all that apply)
Have you noticed an increase in the incidence of these physical problems in recent years?
In your opinion, what are the most common risk factors that contribute to these situations?
- low cultural level, neglect of the minor by the family.
- family with low economic resources low level of education lack of parental attention families that take girls and adolescents as a means of obtaining money
- pornography is now unrestricted, promoted through all channels, music, television, etc. the lack of parental attention to children, whether because parents are absent due to being abroad or because they have too much work and do not dedicate time to their children, leads to a lack of communication between parents and children. this results in those children or adolescents not understanding the danger they are in or who they are with. values are taught by parents, not schools. if you take away parents, you remove the opportunity for children to learn how to make the right choices in their lives.
Have you received specific training for the management and care of these cases?
If you answered yes to the previous question, how would you rate the quality of the training received?
Rate the effectiveness of the following medical interventions in the treatment of complications arising from these cases:
Do you believe that the lack of resources affects the quality of care provided to these patients?
What do you consider to be the main obstacles to providing comprehensive care for these cases?
- first of all, the lack of intervention from community factors, in addition to economic problems.
- the denial in many cases by the family because they do not consider it a serious situation.
- the family around that boy or girl does not care at all about their mental health. there is no truly established intersectoral commission for these cases. although it was established in the family code, the care of children is not ingrained in the consciousness of cubans as the true duty of parents. there is no functioning executive body for these laws to which one can go to report when these abuses are seen.
Have you referred cases to specialized or child protection services?
What type of follow-up do you conduct after treating these patients? (Check all options that apply)
Do you wish to add any comments or suggestions regarding the care of these cases?
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- what are cases of very difficult management due to the immaturity of the patients and the low cultural level in many cases of the families?