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- Title
Sensitivity Toward Gender and Sexually Diverse Populations: Development of a Scale.
- Authors
Rew, Lynn; Becker, Heather; Tang, Mengjia; Liu, Yun; Wang, Yidan; Croce, Emily
- Abstract
Background: Individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, or nonbinary (LGBTQIA+) experience inequitable access to and utilization of health care services. Nurses' lack of awareness and sensitivity may contribute to this phenomenon. Purpose: This article describes the development and validation of the Gender and Sexual Diversity Sensitivity Scale (GSDSS). A sample of 210 undergraduate nursing students from a large research-intensive university completed the scale online. An exploratory factor analysis was conducted. Results: Factor analysis illustrated a three-factor construct of the scale (i.e., General Education Experience, Cognitive Awareness, and Comfort With Interactions); Cronbach's alpha coefficients ranged from.66 to.91, and the total scale alpha coefficient was.782. Conclusion: The GSDSS has evidence of construct validity and reliability, and can be used in studies that include nursing and other health professional students. [J Nurs Educ. 2022;61(7):383–389.]
- Subjects
EXPERIMENTAL design; RESEARCH; NURSES' attitudes; ANALYSIS of variance; RESEARCH methodology; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; COGNITION; ATTITUDES toward sex; UNDERGRADUATES; CRONBACH'S alpha; MULTITRAIT multimethod techniques; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; LGBTQ+ people; FACTOR analysis; SCALE analysis (Psychology); DESCRIPTIVE statistics; STUDENT attitudes; NURSING students; CULTURAL awareness; EDUCATIONAL attainment
- Publication
Journal of Nursing Education, 2022, Vol 61, Issue 7, p383
- ISSN
0148-4834
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3928/01484834-20220613-01