Department of Nursing, Aksaray University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Nursing Department, Aksaray 68100, Turkey.
Department of Nursing, Aksaray University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Nursing Department, Aksaray 68100, Turkey.
Nurse Educ Pract. 2024 Jan;74:103853. doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2023.103853. Epub 2023 Nov 29.
This study aims to describe the metaphorical perceptions of nursing students towards sexuality in older people through metaphor.
Age-related changes and health problems can adversely affect sexual functions. Sexuality is a basic physiological need that continues throughout life and it is important to eliminate the problems related to sexual life that occur in old age. Determining the knowledge and attitudes of nursing students, who will be health professionals of the future, towards sexuality in older people can make a significant contribution to providing holistic health care to older individuals. Therefore, it is important to determine the knowledge and attitudes of nursing students about the sexuality of older people to improve their professional competence.
This study was conducted with metaphor analysis technique based on phenomenological method.
This study was conducted in a total of 222 nursing students. The study data were collected between January and February 2022 with a questionnaire form prepared by the researchers. In the first part of the questionnaire, questions about socio-demographic characteristics were included, and in the second part, the sentence "sexuality in older people is like., because." was included to determine the metaphors developed by the students about sexuality in older people. These handwritten writings of the students were used as the main data source in this study. Content analysis was used to evaluate the metaphors.
In this study, students produced a total of 222 valid metaphors related to the concept of sexuality in older people. The metaphors revealing the students' perceptions of the concept of sexuality in older people were grouped under 5 categories; "Category related to slowing down and regression", "Category related to need or normal", "Category related to not possible", "Category related to the feeling of love, compassion and friendship" and "Unnecessary, unimportant or should not be category". In the study, it was determined that the category in which the most metaphors were generated was "related to slowing down and regression".
In the study, nursing students provided metaphors containing both positive and negative concepts related to sexuality in older people. However, most the metaphors generated contain negative concepts. To support nursing students' positive attitudes towards sexuality in older people, to change their negative attitudes, and to increase their knowledge and awareness, it is proposed to incorporate courses on sexuality in older people into the nursing curriculum and to include sexuality in older people in courses on sexuality.
本研究旨在通过隐喻描述护理学生对老年人性行为的隐喻认知。
与年龄相关的变化和健康问题会对性功能产生不利影响。性行为是一种贯穿一生的基本生理需求，消除老年人生活中出现的与性生活相关的问题非常重要。确定未来的健康专业人员——护理学生对老年人性行为的知识和态度，可以为老年人提供整体健康护理做出重大贡献。因此，确定护理学生对老年人性行为的知识和态度对于提高他们的专业能力非常重要。
本研究采用基于现象学方法的隐喻分析技术进行。
本研究共纳入 222 名护理学生。研究数据于 2022 年 1 月至 2 月期间通过研究人员编制的问卷表收集。问卷的第一部分包括社会人口统计学特征问题，第二部分包括“老年人的性行为就像……，因为……”的句子，以确定学生对老年人性行为的隐喻。本研究主要数据来源是学生手写的这些文字。采用内容分析法对隐喻进行评估。
本研究中，学生共生成了 222 个与老年人性行为概念相关的有效隐喻。揭示学生对老年人性行为概念感知的隐喻分为以下 5 类：“与减缓和退行相关的类别”、“与需求或正常相关的类别”、“与不可能相关的类别”、“与爱、同情和友谊相关的类别”和“不必要、不重要或不应该相关的类别”。研究中确定，生成隐喻最多的类别是“与减缓和退行相关的类别”。
本研究中，护理学生提供了包含老年人性行为的积极和消极概念的隐喻。然而，生成的隐喻大多包含消极概念。为了支持护理学生对老年人性行为的积极态度，改变他们的消极态度，提高他们的知识和意识，建议将老年人性行为课程纳入护理课程，并将老年人性行为纳入性教育课程。
