Sexual Competence in Higher Education: Global Perspective in a Multicentric Project in the Nursing Degree

Mecugni, Daniela; Gradellini, Cinzia; Caldeira, Ermelinda; Aaberg, Vicki; Dias, Hélia; Gómez-Cantarino, Sagrário; Frias, Ana Maria Aguiar; Barros, Maria da Luz Ferreira; Sousa, Luís; Sim-Sim, Margarida

doi:10.3390/healthcare9020166

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“…These allow nurses to analyse the sexual dimension of the patient with greater depth and relevance [ 61 , 62 ]. Although nursing attaches great importance to sexuality, human sexuality is not yet perceived as an area of nursing [ 54 ].…”

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“…In this study, the instrument will be a questionnaire composed by socio-demographic data and different scales. On the one hand, the Sexuality Attitudes and Beliefs Survey (SABS) [ 51 ] and in its Spanish version [ 52 ], Portuguese [ 53 ] or Italian [ 54 ] versions, will be used as instrument, previously validated by the partner universities. This SABS will reinforce the possible results obtained in this protocol.…”

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Sexual education for university students and the community in a european project: study protocol

Soto-Fernández,

Fernández-Cézar,

Aguiar Frias

et al. 2023

BMC Nurs

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Background The World Health Organisation (WHO) calls on stakeholders to give Higher Education a key educational importance for the future of Europe. Within the content of the training programmes at university, sexuality emerges as a relevant topic in the nursing degree, to promote integral health from a holistic perspective. However, research on the presence of sexuality at the curricular level in Higher Education suggests that it is incomplete and underdeveloped. Methods This is a protocol for a long-term, multi-centre, exploratory, descriptive, and cross-sectional study with a quantitative and qualitative approach lasting two years. The research will be carried out in the educational community, including, on the one hand, students, and professors and health professionals of nursing programmes from five universities in different parts of the world (Portugal, Spain, Italy, and the United States), and on the other hand, women, young people, and immigrants from these communities. The study will have several target populations. Firstly, the target is nursing students, with whom the aim is to define their perspective on the sexuality content taught at the university, and their level of knowledge. Secondly university professors and health professionals, with whom we will check their perspective on sexuality in the classroom, as well as their level of knowledge in this field. And finally, we will work with the community (women, young people, and immigrants) to whom we will try to bring sexuality from a useful and enjoyable perspective. In order to measure these variables in the protocol, instruments such as questionnaires and semi-structured interviews will be used. During data collection, ethical principles will be guaranteed and informed consent will be requested from the participants. Discussion The results of the research will have a high curricular impact on the educational community, and will last over time, since the tools generated in the project will be included as part of nursing training programmes. In addition, participation in the project will improve health education for health professionals and at the community level on sexuality in both urban and rural populations.

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Sexual education for university students and the community in a european project: study protocol

Soto-Fernández,

Fernández-Cézar,

Aguiar Frias

et al. 2023

BMC Nurs

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“…In fact, after the original [ 17 ], two more languages, such as Portuguese [ 2 ] and Spanish [ 18 ], paid attention to the instrument. Following the correct validation process, having the same instrument in different languages is a mechanism that enhances the instrument and, at the same time, enables multicenter studies [ 32 ].…”

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Adaptation and Validation of the Sexuality Attitudes and Beliefs Scale for the Italian Context

Gradellini

Kaleci

Sim-Sim

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Background: Nurses dealing with a patient’s sexuality must start from an awareness of their own experience, specific attitudes, and possible limits. What emerges from the literature is a conservative tendency in nurses, which underlines the difficulty in this awareness, but even a difficulty in improving the necessary knowledge/skills. It is, therefore, essential to create tools that can raise awareness of these limits. Objective: the present study aims to explore the psychometric properties of the Attitudes and Beliefs about Sexuality Scale, adapted and validated for the Italian context. Method: This is an instrumental, cross-sectional piece of research, whose SABS validation process applies the steps of Beaton and Valmi. The convenience sample collected data from 223 participants in the first approach. This was followed by a retest involving 44 students randomly selected from those who responded in the first phase. Ethical principles were respected. Results: The SABS questionnaire demonstrated good test–retest reliability, good internal consistency, and adequate construct validity. Conclusions: The Italian version of the SABS is valid and reliable for use with nursing students. This is the fourth language in which the SABS is available for research.

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“…However, the 14 topics of Sexual Health are not very prevalent, that is, they are taught in few universities. This low prevalence of content in most curricula does not seem to be adequate for acquiring basic knowledge that allows students to develop good competencies in sexual health [19,20]. The most common barriers described to justify this low inclusion of Sexual Health topics have been the perception that they are not a curricular priority, time constraints, religious affiliation of the university, faculty beliefs, and / or the lack of qualification or comfort of teachers [4].…”

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Contents of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Subject in the Undergraduate Nursing Curricula of Spanish Universities, a Cross Sectional Study

Saus-Ortega¹,

Ballestar-Tarín²,

Chover-Sierra³

et al. 2021

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Background: It is very important that nurses receive adequate training in Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH). In this study, the contents of the SRH subject in the undergraduate nursing curricula of 77 Spanish universities were examined in order to determine what SRH training nursing students are receiving. Methods: The contents of the SRH subject of all the curricula that were available online were reviewed. The distribution of the contents (topics) in the two areas (reproductive health and sexual health) was analyzed, and the prevalence of each topic was established. It was also determined whether there were differences in topics between public (n=52) and private universities (n=25). Results: The training of nursing students focuses mainly on the area of Reproductive Health (15 topics). Most of the topics of this area had a prevalence greater than 50%. Although the area of Sexual Health had 14 topics, most of these topics had a low prevalence (&lt;20%), especially in private universities. Conclusions: It was found that there is considerable variation in the distribution and prevalence of SRH topics between universities. The contents of the area of Reproductive Health are usually prevalent in most of the curricula, however the contents of the area of Sexual Health are very limited in most of the universities. An organizational effort is required to determine and standardize the contents of SRH that nursing students should receive in Spain to avoid inequalities in their training.

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Sexual Competence in Higher Education: Global Perspective in a Multicentric Project in the Nursing Degree

Cited by 11 publications

References 26 publications

Sexual education for university students and the community in a european project: study protocol

Sexual education for university students and the community in a european project: study protocol

Adaptation and Validation of the Sexuality Attitudes and Beliefs Scale for the Italian Context

Contents of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Subject in the Undergraduate Nursing Curricula of Spanish Universities, a Cross Sectional Study

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