Background: Health professionals' attitudes towards addressing sexual health are important to promote patients' sexual health. Therefore, measurement of health professionals' attitudes towards addressing sexual health is essential.
Aim: This study aimed to adapt the questionnaire Students' Attitudes towards Addressing Sexual Health (SA-SH-D) to health professionals working with rehabilitation in Danish municipalities and evaluated psychometric properties of the adapted questionnaire: The Danish Version of the Professionals' Attitudes towards Addressing Sexual Health (PA-SH-D).
Background: Social educators have an important role in promoting and rehabilitating sexual health as they provide information, discuss, and support sexual health in daily life for persons living with impairments, intellectual disabilities, and complex needs.
Aim: The study aimed to assess the psychometrics of the Students´ Attitudes towards addressing Sexual Health Extended (SA-SH-Ext) questionnaire for social educator students.
Methods: A sample of 213 Norwegian social educator students was used to test internal consistency reliability and construct validity with explorative factor analysis.
Objectives: Defensive medicine has originally been defined as motivated by fear of malpractice litigation. However, the term is frequently used in Europe where most countries have a no-fault malpractice system. The objectives of this systematic review were to explore the definition of the term 'defensive medicine' in European original medical literature and to identify the motives stated therein.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The Danish version of Health Care Students' Attitudes towards Addressing Sexual Health (SA-SH-D) is a questionnaire for measuring the attitudes of health care professional students' towards addressing sexual health in their future professional practice and care.
Aim: To assess content validity and reliability of the SA-SH-D.
Method: Following COSMIN guidelines, the study consisted of a cognitive interview study and a questionnaire study.
J Appl Res Intellect Disabil
July 2022
Background: Norwegian social educator students' attitudes towards addressing sexual health are unknown, even if their future clients often have needs related to sexual issues.
Purpose: To investigate social educator students' readiness to address sexual health in their future profession.
Methods: In 2019, 213 social educator students (response rate 34%) responded to the Students' Attitudes towards addressing Sexual Health Extended online questionnaire.
Background: Physical activity, a core intervention in cardiac rehabilitation, can reduce vascular erectile dysfunction (ED). ED is a common sensitive problem for men with cardiac diseases, decreasing their quality of life. Cardiac health professionals rarely provide information about ED or its relation to physical activity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: In the developing phase of the complex health intervention: Physical Activity to reduce Vascular Erectile Dysfunction (PAVED), it is crucial to explore whether men can accept the communicative component regarding information that regular aerobe Physical Activity can reduce Erectile Dysfunction (i-PAVED). This information is provided by health professionals (HPs) in cardiac rehabilitation, where sexuality issues such as erectile dysfunction (ED) are otherwise rarely addressed.
Aim: To explore how acceptance of cardiac HPs' address of sexuality, ED, and i-PAVED can be identified in men's narratives.
Introduction: Danish health professional (HP) students' attitudes toward addressing sexual health are unknown.
Aim: To investigate Danish HP students' attitudes toward addressing sexual health in their future professions, and to assess differences in perceived competences and preparedness between professional programs.
Methods: A Danish national survey of nursing, occupational therapy, and physiotherapy students was conducted.
Introduction: The term defensive medicine, referring to actions motivated primarily by litigious concerns, originates from the USA and has been used in medical research literature since the late 1960s. Differences in medical legal systems between the US and most European countries with no tort legislation raise the question whether the US definition of defensive medicine holds true in Europe.
Aim: To present the protocol of a systematic review investigating variations in definitions and understandings of the term 'defensive medicine' in European research articles.
Introduction: The leading cause of erectile dysfunction (ED) is arterial dysfunction, with cardiovascular disease as the most common comorbidity. Therefore, ED is typically linked to a web of closely interrelated cardiovascular risk factors such as physical inactivity, obesity, hypertension, and metabolic syndrome. Physical activity (PA) has proved to be a protective factor against erectile problems, and it has been shown to improve erectile function for men affected by vascular ED.
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