What is it about?
The article presents the views of Swedish proshtetic and orthotic students students´attitudes towards addressing sexual health in their future profession. The data collection was made by using the Student´s Attitudes towards Sexual Health (SA-SH) scale and the article also present psychometric data of the scale, which ensures the usability of the SA-Sh also for this group of future professionals in health and welfare. The SA-SH has previously shown good psychometric values for students in nursing, social work, occupational therapy and physiotherapy.
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Why is it important?
The study concerns a taboo-topic which is rarely addressed in education in prosthetics and orthotics, even if the students in their future profession, will meet many persons who have had their sexual health affected by their disease or trauma. The attitudes of the students can affect how they behave towards the patients and also how they respect and understand sexual health and is therefore of importance to explore to optimize education in this field.
Perspectives
When addressing the topic of sexual health for students in various healthcare professions , the students often present general lack of knowledge in this field, and even less competence concerning sexual health for persons with disabilities or of of older age. Additional knowledge concerning sexual health through the lifespan, so the students can meet all patients with respect and meet the needs of the patients is important.
Kristina Areskoug-Josefsson
Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University
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This page is a summary of: Prosthetic and orthotic students’ attitudes toward addressing sexual health in their future profession, Prosthetics and Orthotics International, May 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0309364618775444.
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