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Accessible summary What is known on the subject A serious mental illness influences sexual life and people affected have worries about their sexual health. People living with a serious mental illness can and want to participate in interventions related to sexual health. What the paper adds to existing knowledge People who suffer a serious mental illness are interested in maintaining an active sex life. People who suffer a serious mental illness experience rejection when they open up and they lose intimate relationships or possibilities of meeting other people because of ignorance and prejudices surrounding mental health. What are the implications for practice Mental health services must respond to this need, that is including sexual needs assessment among routine standard practices or training nurses on sexual education to allow them to advise patients and their families and friends. Health systems should promote awareness programmes and reduce the stigma surrounding mental health and sexuality. Abstract Introduction Sexuality‐related nursing care is scarce and mainly focuses on biological issues. There is also a lack of knowledge about how serious mental illnesses affect sexuality. Aim To explain how people with a serious mental illness perceive and experience their sexuality. Method A meta‐synthesis was conducted to integrate qualitative studies. Four databases were used to perform the search, focused in the last ten years. Nine articles were included, and their results analysed thematically. Results Four categories were identified: "Pathologized sexuality," which explains how the disorder and treatment affect sexuality; "Not my sexuality anymore,” which describes feelings emerging from the perceived limitations and the role of self‐acceptance; “Learning to manage intimate relationships,” which explains the desire to establish intimate personal relationships and define their meaning; and "Reconstructing my sexuality," which elucidates the influence of the environment on sexuality. Discussion Sexuality is influenced by several factors, the main ones being: the clinical complications, the side effects of drug treatment, the social support, the relationship with the health sector and stigma. Implications for practice Having a serious mental illness affects sexuality and can provoke suffering and social isolation. Mental health services should address this issue and carry out community interventions to reduce stigma.

Although active learning methodologies promote students' creativity and motivation regarding learning objectives, traditional unidirectional teaching methods remain more common. The objective of this study was to determine nursing students' perceptions regarding the efficacy of narrative photography as a learning method, including self-perceived satisfaction. Narrative photography is an art-based technique inspired by Photovoice that promotes empathy, creativity, and reflection. A crosssectional study was conducted using a nonprobabilistic sample of 66 nursing students from a public university in Barcelona, Spain. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected anonymously using an electronic tool. Descriptive statistics and thematic analyses were used to analyze the data. Sixty valid questionnaires were returned. The respondents found narrative photography's ability to promote creativity and assist understanding of theory to be its most satisfying aspect (>95% somewhat/ totally agree). Narrative photography's usefulness, ability to foster self-criticism, and the associated workload was the least satisfactory aspect (>55% somewhat/totally agree). Significant differences regarding satisfaction levels were found for both age and sex. Narrative photography is a helpful and satisfactory learning method, especially for promoting creativity and understanding theoretical concepts. Keypoints• Narrative photography prompts a high level of satisfaction among nursing students.• Age and gender appear to influence students' satisfaction with narrative photography.

Aim To understand the attitudes and beliefs of nurses and physicians about managing the sexual health of patients during office visits in primary care centres. Design A questionnaire‐based, cross‐sectional multi‐centre study. Methods The study was performed in 15 primary care centres in Barcelona (Spain), from December 2017–February 2018. Obtained data were analysed with descriptive and bivariate statistics. Results Nearly half the participants believed they should manage sexual health in primary care, but a third of them disagreed this is a priority. Participants also believed patients are not comfortable speaking with them about sex. Statistically significant differences were observed between the professions as nurses more often reported receiving sexual health questions from patients and believed they had enough knowledge to appropriately respond. Most participants wanted additional education to speak with patients more comfortably and confidently about sex.

the professional identity of nurses regarding the academic area is still under construction and inexperience is the major obstacle in the management of critical incidents in the teaching career.

Background: This study focuses on furthering the understanding of doctoral researcher development, through the examination of significant events and application of the trajectories analysis framework. Conducting doctoral studies requires a high level of cognitive, personal and emotional competency. Students experience positive and negative emotions that affect their confidence and their performance, in both their doctoral studies and their personal life. Purpose: The aim of the study was to analyse, in depth, the emotional experiences of doctoral students when faced with different significant events throughout their doctoral studies and examine associations between their emotions and their trajectory. Methodology: A sub-sample of participants from a wider European study of 10 Spanish doctoral students was analysed. To delve into the emotional aspects of the PhD trajectories, a deeper analysis of three cases was carried out. A qualitative interpretative approach of a transversal nature was adopted to analyse, in detail, the type of events and the type of emotions associated along the students' PhD trajectories. Findings: The analysis suggested that, despite the high negative emotions they felt, the participants valued the experiences lived throughout their doctorates and perceived them as mainly positive rather than negative. The most critical situations were linked to methodological and research design decisions that forced the participants to reassess their competencies and address the implications of these decisions in the final outputs of their research. The relationship with their supervisors was valued as crucial for their emotional well-being. The results highlight the relevance of the meaning-making process of the experience and the effect of previous emotions on how students interpret and cope with future events. Conclusions: Identifying specific issues that are emotionally significant and having a better understanding of the role of emotions experienced during the PhD can help to support and enable programme directors and supervisors to establish clearer monitoring and supervision strategies that promote reinforcement, personal validation, visibility of achievements and sustained motivation.