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- Title
Actitudes de los profesionales de enfermería de práctica clínica y comunitaria hacia la sexualidad en la vejez.
- Authors
Medina Fernández, Josué; Medina Fernández, Isaí; Sosa Cárdenas, Rebeca; Fajardo Ramos, Elizabeth; Torres Obregón, Reyna; Medina Fernández, Alejandra
- Abstract
Objective. To compare the attitudes toward sexuality in old age in nursing professionals of clinical and community practice. Methodology. Descriptive, comparative, cross-sectional study, with a sample of 118 Nursing professionals from a southern area of Mexico, selected through convenience sampling based on the network. The questionnaire of attitudes towards sexuality in old age was applied (α=0.76). We used descriptive and inferential statistics such as U Mann Whitney and spearman correlation analyzed by SPSS v22. Results. 118 nursing professionals participated in the study, being 87.3% clinical nurses and 12.7% community nurses, it was observed that the different means of attitudes towards sexuality in community and clinical practice professionals is not differently significant. It was found that men have greater negative attitudes towards the limitation of sexual activity and professionals with a higher degree of prejudice in sexuality. Discussion. We found more negative attitudes in the community nurses; thus, nursing professional should consider the assessment and intervention of the older adult in sexuality in the hospital and community setting in more depth, leaving aside the prejudices and taboos, in order to provide comprehensive care.
- Subjects
MEXICO; AGE distribution; ATTITUDE (Psychology); COMMUNITY health nursing; COMPARATIVE studies; GERIATRIC nursing; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL personnel; NURSES' attitudes; PREJUDICES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICAL sampling; STATISTICS; DATA analysis; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; ATTITUDES toward sex; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; INFERENTIAL statistics; MANN Whitney U Test; OLD age
- Publication
Nure Investigación, 2020, Issue 104, p1
- ISSN
1697-218X
- Publication type
Article