Knowledge attitudes and readiness of nursing students in assessing peoples' sexual health problems.
Attitude
Knowledge
Nursing students
Readiness
Sexual health
Journal
Nurse education today
ISSN: 1532-2793
Titre abrégé: Nurse Educ Today
Pays: Scotland
ID NLM: 8511379
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jun 2022
Jun 2022
Historique:
received:
14
08
2021
revised:
28
03
2022
accepted:
10
04
2022
pubmed:
8
5
2022
medline:
18
5
2022
entrez:
7
5
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Sexual health is an important part of human physical health. Sexual wellbeing is a condition of physical, emotional, mental, and social ease concerning sexuality. Therefore, all health care professionals should respect, protect, and fulfil the sexual-health needs of a person. This research aims to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and readiness of nursing students in assessing people's sexuality. Cross-sectional descriptive research design was used to conduct this research. A stratified random sampling technique was used to recruit 195 nursing students from BSN (semester VI & VIII), Post RN (semester II & IV). Three self-administered tools Sexually Transmitted Diseases Knowledge Questionnaire (STD-KQ), Self-Addressing Sexual-Health (SA-SH), and Self-Addressing Sexual-Health History Taking was used to collect data from the participants. Data analysis was conducted on SPSS V-23. Majority (111, 56.9%) of participants belong to the public sector as compared to the private. The majority of the students were female (n = 117, 60%). Most (153, 78.5%) of the participants were interested in people's sexual-health history taking; they had positive attitudes toward people's sexuality. Most (139, 71.3%) of the study participants were comfortable and ready to some extent to deal with sexual health issues. Religion, culture, and people's opposite-gender were identified barriers in assessing people's sexuality. This study identified that nursing students had insufficient knowledge regarding STDs, but they had positive attitudes toward addressing peoples' sexual-health concerns. Students are comfortable and ready to some extent to deal with sexual problems.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Sexual health is an important part of human physical health. Sexual wellbeing is a condition of physical, emotional, mental, and social ease concerning sexuality. Therefore, all health care professionals should respect, protect, and fulfil the sexual-health needs of a person.
PURPOSE
OBJECTIVE
This research aims to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and readiness of nursing students in assessing people's sexuality.
METHODOLOGY
METHODS
Cross-sectional descriptive research design was used to conduct this research. A stratified random sampling technique was used to recruit 195 nursing students from BSN (semester VI & VIII), Post RN (semester II & IV). Three self-administered tools Sexually Transmitted Diseases Knowledge Questionnaire (STD-KQ), Self-Addressing Sexual-Health (SA-SH), and Self-Addressing Sexual-Health History Taking was used to collect data from the participants. Data analysis was conducted on SPSS V-23.
RESULT
RESULTS
Majority (111, 56.9%) of participants belong to the public sector as compared to the private. The majority of the students were female (n = 117, 60%). Most (153, 78.5%) of the participants were interested in people's sexual-health history taking; they had positive attitudes toward people's sexuality. Most (139, 71.3%) of the study participants were comfortable and ready to some extent to deal with sexual health issues. Religion, culture, and people's opposite-gender were identified barriers in assessing people's sexuality.
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSIONS
This study identified that nursing students had insufficient knowledge regarding STDs, but they had positive attitudes toward addressing peoples' sexual-health concerns. Students are comfortable and ready to some extent to deal with sexual problems.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35524991
pii: S0260-6917(22)00107-1
doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2022.105371
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
105371Informations de copyright
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