Faculty of Health and Human Sciences and Health Clinic, Southern Cross University, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia.
Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Peninsula Campus, Frankston, Victoria, Australia.
Nurs Health Sci. 2024 Mar;26(1):e13103. doi: 10.1111/nhs.13103.
People with Intellectual Disability and/or autism internationally experience some of the worst health outcomes of any population group. Registered nurses have been identified as having educational deficits in this domain, which include knowledge of adjustments to communication. This study aimed to explore perceived barriers to communication with people with Intellectual Disability and/or autism. A thematic analysis of data from an open-ended free-text survey question exploring barriers to communicating in a cross-sectional survey of 279 Australian registered nurses conducted in 2020 was undertaken. Six interrelated themes were identified. Increased educational content in undergraduate and postgraduate level nursing courses is indicated. The findings identify the benefit of educational design based on the foundation of understanding the diversity in thinking and information processing represented by the forms of neurodiversity in Intellectual Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
国际上，智障和/或自闭症人士的健康状况是所有人群中最差的之一。注册护士在这一领域被认为存在教育缺陷，包括对沟通调整的了解。本研究旨在探讨与智障和/或自闭症人士沟通的障碍。对 2020 年对 279 名澳大利亚注册护士进行的横断面调查中一项关于沟通障碍的开放式自由文本调查问题的数据进行了主题分析。确定了六个相互关联的主题。表明需要在本科和研究生护理课程中增加教育内容。研究结果表明，基于对智障和自闭症谱系障碍中神经多样性所代表的思维和信息处理多样性的理解，进行教育设计具有一定的益处。
