Turkish Version of the Reliability and Validity Study of the Sexual Attitudes and Belief Survey

Abstract

There is not enough information about beliefs and attitudes of the nursing students regarding giving sexual counseling to the patients. This study examined the validity and reliability of the Turkish Sexual Attitudes and Belief Survey, to determine barriers and their possible causes that affect evaluation of the sexual problems that occur because of illnesses or treatments of patients. The Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient of the survey and re-test text correlation value was found as 0.73 and 0.90, respectively (P \ 0.05). Turkish version of the Sexual Attitudes and Belief Survey is a valid and reliable scale to evaluate nursing students' beliefs and attitudes that affect giving sexual counseling to the patients.

Validação para a população portuguesa do Sexuality Attitudes and Beliefs Survey (SABS)

“…Other studies that carried out the process of adaptation in the European context did not mention difficulties. (11,12) In the evaluation study of the psychometric properties, 87.8% of the participants were female, aged between 18 and 31 years, 20.31 years old on average (SD = 2.50).…”

“…(14) The temporal stability of the SABS shows a moderate and significant value (r (40) = 0.38, p = 0.01) with 3-weeks interval, contrary to the validation study in which the SABS appeared as a measure with high temporal stability (r = 0.85; p <0.001) for an interval of 7 to 10 days between applications, (4) which was confirmed in the Turkish study (r = 0.90) with an interval of 2 months. (11) From these three studies emerge one of the problems that can affect the temporal stability: the interval between the two applications, because it has not been equal in none of them. Considering that participants of other studies have been subjected to unknown conditions, and observing a high temporal stability, it can be inferred that the longer period of time may have facilitated the memorization of answers, or allowed learning the subject in question.…”

“…(2,5) In the study of adaptation to Turkish, an excellent temporal stability was observed (r = 0.90) with a 2-month interval. (11) MCSDS-SF The desirability corresponds to the tendency to give answers according to what is socially desirable, even if involuntarily. The MCSDS-SF used was a version that had already been used in the validation process of the SABS.…”

“…(7)(8)(9) A review on the use and/or adaptation of the scale showed its use in a study with 576 nurses in oncology services in the United States (context originating in the scale) and identified the same barriers. (10) In the European context, two studies were identified: a scale adaptation into Turkish carried out with 125 students in a military nursing school, showing that its use in the context of the study population was appropriate, and observing the persistence of the aforementioned barriers; (11) another study in Sweden, with 88 nurses, showed the lack of time to discuss sexual issues with patients as a barrier for 80% of the nurses, while for 60% it was the fact that they did not trust their abilities to approach their sexual concerns with patients. (12) In Portugal, no studies on the SABS validation for the Portuguese population were identified, and there is no knowledge about any instrument to assess the attitudes and beliefs regarding sexuality in clinical nursing practice.…”

Barriers and Promoting Strategies to Sexual Health Assessment for Patients with Coronary Artery Diseases in Nursing Practice: A Literature Review

“…Turkish nursing students' did not offer sexual health assessment and education to patients due to effects of cultural and religious beliefs [60]. In the Turkish culture, open communications about sexual matters between different sexes is prohibited, then preventing nurses from sexual health assessment [61].…”