Perceived Barriers to Addressing Sexual Issues Among Cardiovascular Patients

Salehian, Razieh; Naserbakht, Morteza; Mazaheri, Azadeh; Karvandi, Mersedeh

doi:10.17795/ijpbs-7223

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“…It was anticipated that religious denomination would affect comfort level as other studies have found that religious beliefs were a barrier to addressing sexual issues. [28][29][30] Although religion was not a significant factor in our study or in a previous study of PT students' comfort level, 12 Salehian et al 34 found that cardiologists' cultural and religious beliefs were a barrier to addressing sexual issues with their patients. Perhaps asking questions related more to the respondent's religious beliefs as opposed to simply asking what religion they identify with would reveal different results.…”

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Comfort Level of Occupational and Physical Therapist Students in Addressing Sexual Issues With Patients

Dockter¹,

Parker²,

Gebeke³

et al. 2022

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Introduction. Addressing a patient's sexuality and sexual health is an important component of holistic health care, but there are several challenges affecting students' comfort levels. Studies have indicated that patients want to talk about sexual issues, but there is a lack of conversation initiation from the health care providers. Although there is research to indicate that occupational therapists (OTs) are more comfortable than physical therapists (PTs) in discussing sexual issues, both professions report a lack of content within their respective programs. e purpose of this study was to determine comfort levels of OTand PTstudents when discussing and addressing sexual issues, as well as demographic factors that might influence comfort level and perceived barriers. Methods. A survey was sent to OT and PT students from 3 different universities inquiring as to the respondent's demographics, academic and clinical training, comfort level with various patient scenarios, and perceived barriers to addressing sexual issues. Mann -Whitney U and Kruskal -Wallis statistical tests were used to analyze the differences in comfort levels between groups of students, and open ended questions were coded into themes based on similarity and frequency of responses. Results. A total of 128 students completed the survey. ird-year students, regardless of professional program, were more comfortable addressing sexual issues compared with first-year students. e most common barriers to addressing sexual issues with patients included lack of experience and lack of knowledge. Discussion and Conclusion. Overall, the comfort level was affected by age, academic year, personal demographics, and perceived confidence. Neither geographical location nor religious background had a significant influence on student comfort level.

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Comfort Level of Occupational and Physical Therapist Students in Addressing Sexual Issues With Patients

Dockter¹,

Parker²,

Gebeke³

et al. 2022

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“…Additional modules on communication skills regarding sensitive subjects such as sexuality in cardiology education and training programs can help mediate sexual counseling for CVD patients. 23 Moreover, in our study the most commonly perceived barrier to among cardiac physicians for discussion around sexual issues were physicians personal attitudes and beliefs towards discussion around sexuality, considering it not cardiac physicians professional responsibility and perceiving it as someone else's job, considering sexuality not as a problem for the patient, and large age difference between physicians and patients.…”

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Barriers Faced by Cardiac Physicians in Providing Sexual Counselling to Cardiovascular Diseases Patients

Musaddiq¹,

Bhatti

Shaikh

et al. 2022

Pak Heart J

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Objectives: The objective of this study was to evaluate clinical practice of cardiac physicians in providing sexual counseling to cardiovascular diseases (CVD) patients and to identify possible barriers towards sexual health discussion. Discussion regarding sexual complications among patients with CVD is a less frequent clinical practice and various barriers, patient-related, system-related, and cultural factors that prevent cardiac physicians to remain silent on this important aspect. Methodology: In this study an online survey was conducted with practicing cardiac physicians at various cardiac centers of Pakistan regarding discussing sexual problems in CVD patients. Results: Out of 151 physicians 77.5% (117) were male and the mean age was 32.8±5.9 years. A 52.6% physicians and 49.7% newly diagnosed (≤3 months) CVD patients rarely or never discuss or report sexual issues, for old diagnosed (>3 months) patients these figures were 59.0% and 76.8% respectively. Only 40.4%, 41.1%, and 38.7%, of the physicians, claimed to have adequate knowledge, awareness, and confidence respectively about dealing with sexual problems. Commonly reported barriers were physicians personal attitudes and beliefs about sexuality (55.0%), the perception that it is someone else’s job (51.0%), sexuality not seen as a problem by the patient (48.3%), and the age difference between physicians and patients (40.4%). Conclusion: We observed poor practice, inadequate knowledge, and lack of awareness among cardiac physicians regarding discussing sexual health.

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“…As the men had a broad range of problems related to ED, a multidisciplinary, integrative and biopsychosocial approach in communication about ED, covering all facets of the men's ED concerns was interpreted to meet the needs of men and their partners, cf. [76][77][78] In the men's perspective on what HPs' communication should entail, help for self-help was preferred. Hospital sexual rehabilitation consisting of physical activity and psychoeducation can empower patients to self-help [53].…”

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Communication about physical activity to reduce vascular erectile dysfunction – A qualitative interview study among men in cardiac rehabilitation

Gerbild

Josefsson

Larsen

et al. 2021

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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Background Physical activity, a core intervention in cardiac rehabilitation, can reduce vascular erectile dysfunction (ED). ED is a common sensitive problem for men with cardiac diseases, decreasing their quality of life. Cardiac health professionals rarely provide information about ED or its relation to physical activity. Developing health professionals’ communicative component of the complex intervention ‘Physical Activity to reduce Vascular Erectile Dysfunction’ (PAVED) is important. Understanding the receiver needs is essential in designing a complex intervention. Aim To elucidate men's perspectives on cardiac health professionals’ communication about PAVED. Ethical issues An Institutional Data Protection Agency approved the study. Methods An interpretive data‐driven thematic analysis was applied to individual, qualitative semi‐structured interviews with 20 Danish men attending cardiac rehabilitation. Results The men wanted health professionals’ communicating about ED, as it was perceived as a major problem diminishing masculinity and tabooed by health professionals. Men wanted help for self‐help, which may be possible with the aid of competent health professionals’ communication about how to prevent, reduce and cope with ED ‐ including information about PAVED. The men wanted health professionals’ communication about ED in various contexts: general information in groups, sexual counselling for individuals and couples and written material. Study limitations Recruitment was done from a Danish municipality's cardiac rehabilitation, and the transferability of the results may be limited to similar contexts. Conclusion Erectile dysfunction was experienced as a major biopsychosocial problem for the men and their partners. The men had a need for health professionals’ communication about sexuality, ED and information about PAVED as well as about prevention, reduction and management of ED. The men had a need for professional communication about sexual health.

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Perceived Barriers to Addressing Sexual Issues Among Cardiovascular Patients

Cited by 6 publications

References 40 publications

Comfort Level of Occupational and Physical Therapist Students in Addressing Sexual Issues With Patients

Comfort Level of Occupational and Physical Therapist Students in Addressing Sexual Issues With Patients

Barriers Faced by Cardiac Physicians in Providing Sexual Counselling to Cardiovascular Diseases Patients

Communication about physical activity to reduce vascular erectile dysfunction – A qualitative interview study among men in cardiac rehabilitation

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