Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Human Sexuality
Other languages of instruction: English, Spanish
Teaching staff
Introduction
This subject is proposed as an essential knowledge about feminine menstrual cycle, fertility indicators and combined fertility. It also establishes the bases of the relation between the practice of Natural Family Planning (NFP) and the personalist approach of human sexuality.
Pre-course requirements
If there are students in self-isolation due to the COVID-19 health and safety measures, who cannot physically attend class at the University like their peers, teaching staff will carry out online teaching during this isolation period only so that the student(s) in question can attend their classes online. The rest of the students will have to attend their classes in person in the classroom.
Objectives
- An integrative visit of the different dimensions of human sexuality Some knowledge about the physiology of male and female fertility
- A basic understanding of fertility indicators, fertility window, infertility, and combined fertility
- A basic understanding of the different natural family planning methods
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- 10. B - Protecting the health and welfare of individuals or groups by ensuring their safety.
- 11. E - Establish effective communication with patients, families, social groups and partners and promote health education.
- 18. E - Ability to lead nursing care in any area of professional practice.
- 19. B - Ability to make decisions based on critical thinking and reflective practice.
- 1. G - Ability to provide technical and professional health care appropriate to the health needs of the people they treat, with full technical and scientific autonomy, according to current and available scientific knowledge and to the quality standards and safety requirements set forth in the applicable legal standards and code of ethics.
- 20. B - Multidisciplinary teamwork
- 21. B - Oral and written communication.
- 24. G - Ability to work autonomously.
- 26. G - Ability to generate knowledge from practice.
- 28. E - Leadership in nursing care and in nursing teams to improve quality care for people, participation in health policy and professional development.
- 6. E - Base nursing care on scientific evidence and available resources.
- 7. B - Understand people without prejudice, considering their physical, psychological and social aspects, as autonomous and independent individuals, ensuring respect for their opinions, beliefs and values, ensuring their right to privacy through confidentiality and professional secrecy.
- 8. B - Promote and respect the right of participation, information, autonomy and informed consent in decision-making of people treated, according to the way they live their health - disease process..
- 9. E - Promote healthy lifestyles, self-care, as well as the maintenance of therapeutic and preventive behaviors.
Learning outcomes of the subject
- Has an integrative vision of sexual health that encompasses the different dimensions of human sexuality
- Critically assesses the scientific evidence in this area and the different secondary education programs that currently exist Is able
- to identify and record fertility indicators in her own cycle (if she is a woman)
- Interpret natural family planning charts
Syllabus
UNIT 1:
1.1 Anthropology of human sexuality
1.2 A short history of Natural Family Planning
1.3 Integration of sexuality and NFP
1.4 Anthropological differences between NFP and contraception
1.4 Sexual education programmes
UNIT 2:
2.1 Anatomy and physiology of the masculine and feminine reproductive system
Biophysical and biochemistry parameters of the cervical secretion
Other parameters of ovulation: temperature, changes in the cervix. Personal
signs.
2.3 Combined fertility. Fertilization, implantation, pregnancy
2.4 Methods of Fertility Awareness
Cervical mocus Method
Symptothermic Methods
MELA
Creighton Method. Naprotechnology.
Teaching and learning activities
In person
Master classes and practical methodology classes will be combined with graphics workshops and presentation of work in the classroom The students will have the possibility to study and interpret their own graphs in private sessions with the teacher Classes are taught in person. In the event that there are students who cannot attend for derived reasons of COVID19 the teacher must do the classes in BLENDED format, where the entire group will be in the classroom and the time Teams will be used by those who cannot attend
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
The exam will consist of two parts: • A part with test questions about the contents of the subject • Another part in which the interpretation of graphs of the cervical secretion method and the symptothermal method in a normal physiological situation will be requested.
80% of the grade for the subject is the exam where the questions for solving graphs will score more than the multiple choice questions. 20% of the grade is the presentation of the work on the international symposium on fertility regrowth and class attendance
Bibliography and resources
OMS. Learning Package for Family Fertility Education. 1978
González-Merlo J. Ginecologia. Ed. Espasa. 1988
Gotzon Santamaria M. Ecologia sexual. Ed. Palabra. 2005
Melendo T. Fernández-Crehuet J. Planificación familiar natural Ed. Palabra. 1993
Melendo T. Millán- Puelles L. Asegurar el amor. Ed. Rialp. 2002
De Irala. J. Propóntelo, propónselo. Evitar el SIDA. Ed. Internacionales Universitarias. Madrid. 2006.
De Irala J. El Valor de la Espera. Ed. Palabra. 2011.
Otte A. Medialdea C. Cómo reconocer la Fertilidad. El Método Sintotérmico. Ed. Internacionales Universitarias. Madrid 1998.
Toulat J. Contracepción sin violencia. Ed. SM.1982
Tesis doctorals:
De Irala J. Métodos Naturales de Regulación de la Fertilidad: conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas de los médicos. Univ. Málaga. 1990
Temprano H. Estudio de los parámetros biofísicos del moco cervical humano. Investigación de la cristalización con microscopía óptica y electrónica. Influencia de los inductores de la ovulación. Univ.Santiago de Compostela; Hosp. Mat. Inf. Teresa Herrera.La Coruña. 1990
Menárguez M. Caracterización morfológica de diversos tipos de moco cervical humano mediante microscopía de luz y microscopía electrónica de barrido. Univ. Murcia. 1998
Medialdea C. Parámetros biofísicos, bioquímicos, microscópicos para facilitar el conocimiento de la fertilidad. Univ. Valencia 2005.
Ferreira Luna. M. C. La antropologia adecuada como fundamento de los Métodos Naturales de Reconocimiento de la Fertilidad. Pont. Lateranense de Roma, Pont. Inst. Juan Pablo II. Roma. 2007
Valdés de la Colina Mª I. Aplicación del conocimiento de la fertilidad humana para la búsqueda de embarazo. Resultados en el ámbito clínico. Univ. Rey Juan Carlos I. Madrid 2012.
Articles:
Carlos S, Osorio A, Calatrava M, Lopez-Del Burgo C, Ruiz-Canela M, de Irala J. Project Yourlife (What Young People Think and Feel about Relationships, Love and Sexuality and Related Risk Behavior): Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Protocol. Front Public Health. 2016;4:28. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00028.
Fertilidad e infertilidad en el ciclo ovárico: Aplicaciones clinicas y lineas de investigacion. Actas del Curso Precongreso organizado por RENAFER en el 12 World Congress Perinatal Medicine. Madrid. 2015.
De Irala J., Osorio A., Ruiz-Canela M., Carlos S., López-del Burgo C. Informing Youth about the Age of Sexual Initiation Using Means or Percentages. Health Communication 2014;29(6):629-33
Ruiz-Canela M., López del Burgo C., Carlos S., Calatrava M., Beltramo C., Osorio A., De Irala J. Observational Research with Adolescents: a Framework for the Management of the Parental Permission. BMC Medical Ethics. 2013, 14:2.
Calatrava M., López-del Burgo C., de Irala J. Factores de riesgo relacionados con la salud sexual en los jóvenes europeos. Medicina Clínica. 2012; 138(12):534-540.
Toledo E., López-del Burgo C., Ruiz-Zambrana A., Donazar M., Navarro-Blasco I., Martínez-Gonzalez M.A., De Irala J. Dietary patterns and difficulty conceiving: a nested case–control study. Fertility and Sterility. 2011; 96:1149-1153.
Menarguez, M.; Odeblad, E., Temprano, H. Recent research in cervical secretion: some biophysical aspects. Sveikatos Mokslai Health Sciences. 2011. Vol 21, Nº 3 pp 55- 60,
López-del Burgo C., López- de Fez C., Osorio A., López Guzmán J., De Irala J. Spanish women's attitude towards post-fertilization effects of birth control methods. European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology. 2010; 151, 56-91.
Menarguez, M.; Pastor, L.M., Odeblad, E. Morphological characterization of different human cervical mucus types using light and scanning electron microscopy. Human Reproduction. 2003 Vol.18. Nº 9, pp 1782- 1789
Rutllant M. Fertilidad Humana y Modernidad. La Vanguardia. Agosto 1988
Unseld, M; Rötzer E & alt. Use of Natural Family Planning (NFP) and Its Effect on Couple Relationships and Sexual Satisfaction: A Multi Country Survey of NFP Users from US and Europe. Frontiers in Public Health 13/03/2017.
Evaluation period
- E1 15/11/2021 08:00h
- R1 02/12/2021 10:00h
- E2 20/06/2022 08:00h
- R2 30/06/2022 09:00h