Publications by authors named "V Aaberg"

Today, with the enhancement in the usage of smartphones, the concepts of nomophobia and phubbing have emerged. Nomophobia refers to the fear of being deprived of smartphones/smart devices. Phubbing is the use of a person's smartphone in situations that are not appropriate for the situation, time, and place.

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Nurse educators are tasked with the education of students to become providers of holistic care, and part of that care includes sexuality. Students carry attitudes and beliefs that influence their behavior; therefore, students who carry negative attitudes about sexual healthcare are less likely to provide that care. This is an international, multicenter study of nursing students' attitudes and beliefs about the provision of sexual healthcare.

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Article Synopsis
  • The WHO emphasizes the importance of integrating sexuality education into higher nursing education to promote holistic health in Europe, although current curricula are often lacking.
  • The study will be a two-year, multi-centre research design involving nursing students, professors, health professionals, and community members across five universities globally to assess knowledge and perspectives on sexuality education.
  • It aims to provide significant insights that could enhance the curriculum and promote a lasting impact in nursing education and community health practices.
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Background: Nurses dealing with a patient's sexuality must start from an awareness of their own experience, specific attitudes, and possible limits. What emerges from the literature is a conservative tendency in nurses, which underlines the difficulty in this awareness, but even a difficulty in improving the necessary knowledge/skills. It is, therefore, essential to create tools that can raise awareness of these limits.

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Unlabelled: Nursing school graduates must be prepared to interact comfortably and effectively with patients about their sexual health. This study analyses the attitudes and beliefs about patient sexuality held by Portuguese and American nursing students.

Objective: In Portuguese and American nursing students, (1) we analyzed students' attitudes and beliefs towards sexuality using the Sexuality Attitudes and Beliefs Survey (SABS); (2) we identified nationality, socio-demographic information, and affective-sexual beliefs and attitudes.

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