Effects of a Web Based Education Programme About Sexuality Aimed at Nurses That Care for Patients With Cancer

Karlstad University

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Sexuality; Neoplasms; Nurse-Patient Relations

Treatments: Other: Bring it up - Assessment and support of patients' sexuality in cancer nursing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05573503

SexCanWebEdNurse

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the SexCan - WebEd Nurse study is to evaluate the effect of a five week online university course, "Bring it up - Assessment and support of patients' sexuality in cancer nursing", aimed at cancer nurses, on occupational self-efficacy and attitudes towards addressing sexuality with patients.

Full description

Cancer nurses attending the course will be recruited. Effects will be used with a pre-post design at two occasions or until we reach 15 participants. Survey data will be collected at baseline and two times post the course. Qualitative interviews with participants will also be performed as well as observational data from the seminars in the course.

The participants' ward managers will also be invited to qualitative interviews considering how to implement the nurses' new knowledge clinically.

Enrollment: 18 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Registered nurses working as a contact nurses in cancer care who are admitted to the intervention university course.

Exclusion criteria

• N/A.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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18 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants complete baseline assessments and are then assigned the intervention.

Treatment:

Other: Bring it up - Assessment and support of patients' sexuality in cancer nursing