Health Care Students' Attitudes Towards Working with Sexual Health in Their Professional Roles: Survey of Students at Nursing, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Programmes
Health Care Students' Attitudes Towards Working with Sexual Health in Their Professional Roles: Survey of Students at Nursing, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Programmes
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DOI：
10.1007/s11195-016-9442-z
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发表时间：
2016-09-01
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Juuso, Paivi
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作者：
Areskoug-Josefsson, Kristina;Larsson, Agneta;Juuso, Paivi
本研究的目的是探讨卫生保健专业学生在未来的职业生涯中与患者就性健康问题进行工作和沟通的态度的差异和相似之处。目的还在于探讨学生的性别、年龄和未来职业是否是影响因素，以及态度是否因教育水平、性别、年龄和未来职业而发生变化。本研究亦旨在探讨不同教育及训练程度的医护学生在未来专业中态度的异同。一个横断面的定量研究进行了一个在线调查分发给护理，职业治疗和物理治疗的学生。学生们认为，他们需要增加性健康教育和提高有关性健康的沟通技巧。性别、未来职业是影响学生性健康工作态度的显著因素。护理和职业治疗专业的学生对在未来的职业中解决性健康问题的态度比物理治疗专业的学生更积极。需要在这一领域进行进一步研究，以提高所有学生群体，特别是物理治疗专业学生的性健康能力。还需要进一步研究，探讨性别对性健康教育的重要性以及对性健康工作的态度。
The aim of this study was to explore differences and similarities in health care students' attitudes towards working with and communicating with patients about sexual health issues in their future professions. The aim was also to explore whether the students' gender, age and future professions were influencing factors and whether there was a change in attitude depending on educational levels, gender, age and future professions. The study also aimed to explore the potential development of those differences and similarities in attitudes between health care students having achieved different levels of education and training in their future professions. A cross-sectional quantitative study was performed with an online survey distributed to nursing, occupational therapy and physiotherapy students. The students believed that they needed increased sexual health education and increased communication skills about sexual health. Gender and future profession are factors that significantly affect the attitudes of the students towards working with sexual health. Nursing and occupational therapy students have a more positive attitude towards addressing sexual health in their future professions than do physiotherapy students. Further research is needed in this field to improve competence in sexual health for all student groups, particularly physiotherapy students. Further research is also needed to explore the significance of gender regarding education in sexual health and attitudes towards working with sexual health.