Nurses’ Knowledge and Attitude about the Elderly’s Sexuality

Abstract

Aim: This purpose of research is to ascertain nurses’ knowledge lev-el and attitudes about the sexuality of the elderly. Background: This research is a descriptive study. The objects were 231 nurses who have been working at general hospitals and long-term care hospitals in S, I City. Method: The data were analyzed with SPSS version 15.0. Frequency, percentage, average & standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA and Duncan method as a post-hoc were used. Result: The mean of the level of knowledge and attitude of nurses regarding sexuality of the elderly was 18.97±5.58, and 39.03±5.18 respectively. Conclu-sion: It is thought that efforts should be done not only on strengthening the aca-demic curriculum of nursing related to the sexuality of the elderly at the school as nursing students university, but also on developing and applying the contin-uous systematic education module according to the level of the clinical nurses caring the elders by continuing education for improving their knowledge and attitude toward sexuality of the elderly.