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Cancer department nurses' attitudes and practices in response to the sexual issues of pelvic radiation patients: A survey in Sichuan, China.
- Source :
- Contemporary Nurse: A Journal for the Australian Nursing Profession; Feb2013, Vol. 43 Issue 2, p146-151, 6p
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Our aim was to investigate cancer department nurses' attitudes and practices in response to pelvic radiation patients' sexual issues in Sichuan, China. A self-made questionnaire survey was conducted with 150 registered nurses of six hospitals in China. Nurses were asked about their experiences regarding consultation about sexual issues and attitudes toward the sex-related statements of pelvic radiation patients. We analyzed the correlation factors for the attitudes about dealing with patients' sexual issues by using the ff-test. Of the survey sample, 128 nurses (85.33%) responded. Of the respondents, 46.88% had been consulted about sexual issues by patients or families. In addition, 87.5% of the nurses believed that 'reliable information on sexual in pelvic radiotherapy is lacking', and 77.34% reported having 'an inter-est in undertaking education of knowledge about pelvic radiation patients' sexual issues'; yet only 4.69% had completed professional sexual education about pelvic radiation patients. The hospital type and bed number as well as nurse age and seniority also affected the responses. This study shows that discussing sexuality is still repressed in the patient-nurse rela-tionship, and most nurses' in Chinese cancer departments lack knowledge about pelvic radiation patients' sextial problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ONCOLOGY nursing
CANCER patients
CHI-squared test
CHINESE people
EMPLOYEES
EXPERIENCE
GENITALIA
FEMALE reproductive organ diseases
MALE reproductive organ diseases
HOSPITALS
SEXUAL health
NURSE-patient relationships
NURSES
NURSES' attitudes
NURSING
NURSING practice
PELVIS
PROBABILITY theory
QUESTIONNAIRES
RADIOTHERAPY
SCALE analysis (Psychology)
HUMAN sexuality
SEX counseling
SEX education
STATISTICAL hypothesis testing
SURVEYS
SEXUAL dysfunction
CULTURAL values
DATA analysis software
ATTITUDES toward sex
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
HOSPITAL nursing staff
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10376178
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Contemporary Nurse: A Journal for the Australian Nursing Profession
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 107971718
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5172/conu.2013.43.2.146