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Sex and sexuality in health care: a multidisciplinary discussion

   By Sarah Chapman May 4, 2017 // 1 Comments
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   As part of our special series on The Problem With Sex, we held a
   multidisciplinary tweetchat, hosted by @WeNurses, to discuss some
   questions around sexuality in health care. @SarahChapman30 invites you
   to catch up with highlights of the conversation here.

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   Chinn, @AgencyNurse , was reflecting on this ahead of our
   tweetchat. She also recalled a conversation with a colleague who
   questioned the inclusion of “expressing sexuality” in the nursing
   assessment of patients, stating that as the patients she cared for were
   elderly this didn’t really apply…! This won’t be unusual. Time to talk,
   as 62 of us did in our tweetchat. Here’s what we discussed.

Sexuality in healthcare

   We agreed that sexuality is part of our identity; that sex and
   relationships are important, and health problems may create a need for
   both physical and psychological care in this area. But it’s
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   will interfere with our provider-patient relationship”!

What might help us better approach conversations about sex and sexuality?

   training nurses

   Healthcare professionals feel they need better training on how to
   approach conversations about sex and sexuality

    A recurring theme here was the perception that HCPs need better
   training on how to talk about sex and sexuality, both what to ask and
   how to ask it, and with it the confidence to initiate and handle these
   conversations.
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   short of being helpful. Often they are left blank. @OlwenOlwen tweeted
   that she “once saw written in nurses notes under ‘Sex’ – “sleeps well”,
   and @DrSharronH “heard similar from nurse colleagues, sexuality as
   ‘patient looks after her appearance’!”

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   ask questions on either side. Sexual health often gets overlooked with
   attention focused on activities of daily living, but isn’t expressing
   sexuality one of these?

What research are you aware of in your clinical area, about sex and
sexuality?

   Very little, or none, it seems. Trainee doctors were asked this
   question too, as part of a blog for our series on #theproblemwithsex,
   and you can read their answers here. The whole topic of sex and
   sexuality, from evidence to healthcare practice, seems often to be
   missing from HCP education and future learning and professional
   discussion. It was suggested that maybe it’s not prioritised in
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   Not involving patients is a potential obstacle to getting sex and
   relationship difficulties into research. We started this tweetchat by
   agreeing that our sexuality is a fundamental part of who we are and
   needs to be considered when we are looking at the health of the whole
   person. If people are asked what matters to them in relation to their
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   in early modern England (MPhil., University of Reading).

   Sex and sexuality in health care: a multidisciplinary discussion by
   Sarah Chapman

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       Many problems related to sexuality occur due to lack of
       communication and ignorance of men, women and health professionals.
       Theme that should be considered by universities. Napoleon