Aaberg Vicki, Moncunill-Martínez Eva, Frías Ana, Carreira Teresa, Cezar Raquel Fernández, Martín-Forero Santacruz Alba, Frade Fátima, Mecugni Daniela, Gómez-Cantarino Sagrario
School of Health Sciences, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA 98119, USA.
Paediatric Oncology Unit, Toledo University Hospital, Av. del Río Guadiana, 45007 Toledo, Spain.
Healthcare (Basel). 2023 Aug 9;11(16):2238. doi: 10.3390/healthcare11162238.
Nurse educators are tasked with the education of students to become providers of holistic care, and part of that care includes sexuality. Students carry attitudes and beliefs that influence their behavior; therefore, students who carry negative attitudes about sexual healthcare are less likely to provide that care. This is an international, multicenter study of nursing students' attitudes and beliefs about the provision of sexual healthcare. The Sexuality Attitudes and Beliefs Survey, which measures attitudes toward the provision of sexual healthcare and has a range of scores from 12 to 72, was given to 129 students across Spain, Portugal, Italy and the United States and revealed negative attitudes about sexuality, with a mean SABS score of 39.95. Higher scores on the SABS reveal more negative attitudes and reduced likelihood of provision of sexual healthcare. Statistically significant differences were found when comparing queer and heterosexual students (41.69 vs. 38.06), and students in their final year of school held more negative attitudes toward the provision of sexual healthcare (41.4 vs. 39.5 and 39.2). This study shows that nurse educators continue to need to focus on the attitudes student nurses carry about sexuality. There is a critical shortage of education strategies to meet the needs of student nurses so that they will be comfortable and confident in providing sexual healthcare.
护士教育工作者的任务是教育学生成为整体护理的提供者，而这种护理的一部分包括性健康护理。学生们的态度和信念会影响他们的行为；因此，对性健康护理持消极态度的学生提供此类护理的可能性较小。这是一项关于护理专业学生对提供性健康护理的态度和信念的国际多中心研究。对西班牙、葡萄牙、意大利和美国的129名学生进行了性态度和信念调查，该调查衡量对提供性健康护理的态度，得分范围为12至72分，结果显示学生们对性持消极态度，性态度和信念调查的平均得分为39.95分。性态度和信念调查得分越高，表明态度越消极，提供性健康护理的可能性越低。比较同性恋和异性恋学生时发现了统计学上的显著差异（41.69对38.06），并且即将毕业的学生对提供性健康护理持更消极的态度（41.4对39.5和39.2）。这项研究表明，护士教育工作者仍需关注实习护士对性的态度。目前极度缺乏能满足实习护士需求的教育策略，以使他们在提供性健康护理时感到舒适和自信。
