Table 4.

Multivariable Analysis of Associations With Comfort in Dealing With Patients’ Sexuality Among Non-Virgin U.S. and Canadian Medical Students^* Responding to a Survey About Sexual Behavior, Functioning, and Medical School Training (N=1, 692) in 2008

Variable	Odds ratio	95% Confidence interval	P value
Age (five-year increase)	0.95	0.78–1.16	0.62
Gender	1.04	0.77–1.39	0.81
Race
Caucasian	1.00		Reference
Hispanic	0.71	0.42–1.20	0.21
Black	0.66	0.30–1.45	0.30
Asian	0.47	0.31–0.70	0.00
Other	0.70	0.40–1.24	0.23
Year in school
1	1.00		Reference
2	1.08	0.75–1.57	0.67
3	0.90	0.60–1.34	0.60
4	1.30	0.84–2.04	0.24
Research year	1.26	0.63–2.51	0.52
Sexual preference
Heterosexual	1.00		Reference
Homosexual	1.09	0.66–1.78	0.74
Bisexual	3.81	1.48–9.84	0.01
Significant depressive symptoms (CES*-D ≥16)	0.57	0.43–0.76	0.00
Sexual frequency in past month (Percentile)
0–1 (<25%)	1.00		Reference
2–5 (25%–50%)	1.57	1.03–2.41	0.04
6–10 (50%–75%)	1.35	0.90–2.02	0.14
≥11 (>75%)	1.46	0.94–2.26	0.09
Number of sexual partners in last 6 months
0	1.00		Reference
1	0.90	0.51–1.60	0.72
≥2	0.88	0.47–1.65	0.70
Six or more lifetime partners	1.76	1.26–2.44	0.00
Perceived adequacy of human sexuality training	6.66	4.69–9.46	0.00

^*he authors had complete data on age, gender, race, year in school, sexual orientation, depressive symptoms, and sexuality variables for these 1,692 students.