ATTITUDE AND BELIEF OF NURSING STUDENTS TOWARDS SEXUAL HEALTH CARE

Aim: Sexual health plays an important role in maintaining the wellbeing. Nevertheless, nurses have restrictions with examining sexual health. Therefore, understanding as of today the factors affecting nurses in the process of providing sexual health care is necessary for future clinician nurses to provide efficient sexual health care. The purpose of this research is defining the attitudes and beliefs of nursing students regarding sexual health care. Method: In this study, 161 nursing students were included. Written consents of the institution and participants were taken. Questionnaire developed by the researchers in accordance with the literature and Sexuality Attitudes and Beliefs Survey (SABS) were used as means of gathering the data. Data was analyzed by IBM SPSS 14.0 package software. The conformity of the data to normal distribution was analyzed and according to the results, it was decided to utilize parametric/nonparametric relation identifying tests. Results: SABS score average of the students is (Mean±SE) 39.55±.55. It was seen that there were statistically significant difference between attitude and belief towards providing sexual health care and academic class, personal values, feeling comfortable in case of a question regarding sexuality, view regarding the importance of sexual health, the condition of providing sexual health care (p .05). Conclusion: Results obtained from this research are as follows: it shows that nursing students have negative attitude and belief on providing sexual health care. It is suggested to make these studies on different samples and support the results with qualitative studies.