Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Human Sexuality
Other languages of instruction: Catalan, English
Teaching staff
Introduction
Moreover, we will delve into the knowledge of the ovarian cycle and combined fertility.
Pre-course requirements
We recommend having passed the course “Care from the beginning of life till adolescence” which is included in the curriculum of the 3rd year.
Objectives
The objectives are that the student acquires:
- A vision of human sexuality that integrates the four dimensions of the person: biological, psychological, social and spiritual.
- Knowledge about the affective dimension of the human being.
- Knowledge about the physiology of male and female fertility.
- Knowledge about fertility indicators, fertility window and combined fertility.
- Knowledge about the dysfunctions of the menstrual cycle, the causes of infertility and its approach from Naprotechnology.
- An approach to 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
The student who has successfully completed this course:
- Has acquired 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 sex education programs that exist today.
- Knows the ovarian cycle and is able (if female) to record fertility indicators on her own chart.
- Is able to identify the fertility window on a chart.
- Understands infertility as a health problem that can be diagnosed through the use of a natural method and treated from a holistic view of the person.
Syllabus
UNIT 1:
1.1 Anthropology of human sexuality. Human sexual response.
1.2 Affectivity, the dynamism of the heart, personality, temperament and richness of the affective world.
1.3 Love and sexuality and the four dimensions of human sexuality.
1.4 Sexual dysfunctions and prevention and treatment through NFP.
UNIT 2:
2.1 Anatomy and physiology of the male and female reproductive system.
2.4 Ovarian cycle dysfunctions.
UNIT 3:
3.1 Ovarian cycle and major and minor indicators of fertility.
3.2 Identification of the fertility window. Theoretical part.
3.4 Charting workshop.
3.5 Cervical factor. Biophysical parameters of cervical secretion.
3.6 Optical microscopy workshop with cervical secretion samples.
UNIT 4:
4.1 Causes of infertility and Creighton system.
4.2 Naprotechnology
UNIT 5:
5.1 Sexuality in the different life cycles, lactation and fertility.
Teaching and learning activities
In person
Lectures and practical methodology classes will be combined with graphing workshops and exhibitions of works in the classroom.
A workshop will be held in the laboratory with microscopes to study different samples of cervical secretion.
Students will have the possibility to study and interpret their own graphs in private sessions with the teacher.
The classes are given in face-to-face mode.
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
Continuous assessment. A multiple-choice test will be given at the end of each class and will be 50% of the final grade.
Class attendance is compulsory; those who do not attend cannot take the multiple-choice exam corresponding to each class.
There will be a small group work with a presentation in class on a communication or paper to choose from those presented at the international ONLINE Congress to be held in Bilbao on September 30 on human fertility. This work will represent 10% of the final grade.
The final exam and three graphs will be 40% of the final grade.
Bibliography and resources
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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 14/11/2022 08:00h
- R1 01/12/2022 10:00h
- E2 19/06/2023 08:00h
- R2 29/06/2023 09:00h