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Nurse Educ Today. 2021 Mar;98:104665. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104665. Epub 2020 Nov 12.
Sexual health is an integral part of nursing care across the life span. Nurses internal and external factors influenced their knowledge, experiences, and competencies. These impact nursing education and professional practice. There was no known research regarding the nursing faculty's sexual health attitudes and beliefs and the relationship with predictive factors.
The purpose aims to identify any statistical relationships between nursing faculty age, nursing educational level, nursing specialty, years of work, and years of teaching in nursing to predict their sexual health attitudes and beliefs.
This is nonexperimental and quantitative research of predictive correlational design with multiple linear regression statistical analyses.
Data gathered from nursing faculty across the United States.
Nursing faculty teaching at the baccalaureate, master, and or advanced practice nursing programs.
Online survey of sexuality attitudes and beliefs (SABS).
A convenience sample of 371 nursing faculty. The results showed a statistically significant and a moderate correlation (R = 0.35, R = 0.12, F(9, 361) = 5.68, p < 0.01) of their sexual health attitudes and beliefs and the predictors. This indicated nursing faculty with a doctorate, women's health specialty, and increased years for age, nursing practice, and teaching showed lower SABS scores or barriers to addressing sexual health. The social cognitive theory and Benner's novice to expert model explained the relationship between predictors and sexual health attitudes and beliefs.
The findings of this study showed personal, educational, and professional factors as predictors affecting positively or negatively the faculty's sexual health attitudes and beliefs. Awareness of those findings should promote changes in nursing education, decrease sexual health barriers, and prepare faculty, students, and nurses to provide sexual health care across the life span.
性健康是整个生命周期护理的一个组成部分。护士的内部和外部因素影响他们的知识、经验和能力。这些因素影响护理教育和专业实践。目前还没有关于护理教师性健康态度和信念以及与预测因素的关系的已知研究。
旨在确定护理教师年龄、护理教育水平、护理专业、工作年限和护理教学年限与他们的性健康态度和信念之间的任何统计关系。
这是一项非实验性和定量的预测性相关研究，采用多元线性回归统计分析。
数据来自美国各地的护理教师。
教授学士、硕士和/或高级实践护理课程的护理教师。
在线性态度和信念调查（SABS）。
371 名护理教师的便利样本。结果显示，性健康态度和信念与预测因素之间存在统计学上显著的中度相关性（R=0.35，R=0.12，F（9,361）=5.68，p<0.01）。这表明，具有博士学位、妇女健康专业以及年龄、护理实践和教学年限增加的护理教师的 SABS 得分较低或在解决性健康问题方面存在障碍。社会认知理论和 Benner 的新手到专家模型解释了预测因素与性健康态度和信念之间的关系。
这项研究的结果表明，个人、教育和专业因素是预测因素，它们会对教师的性健康态度和信念产生积极或消极的影响。了解这些发现应该会促进护理教育的变革，减少性健康障碍，并使教师、学生和护士能够在整个生命周期中提供性健康护理。
