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Yool, Linda; Langdon, Peter E.; Garner, Kiran

doi:10.1023/a:1025499417787

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“…This study has highlighted the complexity of supporting sexuality and thus concurs with previous recommendations for more training (Christian et al, 2001;Yool et al, 2003). Hudson and Jacot (1991) questioned whether sexuality is a useful construct as it encom-…”

Section: For Staff and Servicessupporting

confidence: 87%

“…It may be that support workers feel underprepared to support the sexuality of people with learning disabilities. A training deficit in sexuality and learning disabilities has consistently been noted (Futcher, 2011) despite recommendations for more education (Christian, Stinson, & Dotson, 2001;Yool, Langdon, & Garner, 2003). To further explore some of the reasons why this disconnect may exist, Rushbrooke, Murray, and Townsend (2014) conducted a meta-synthesis of qualitative research that explored caregivers' experiences of supporting the sexual needs of people with learning disabilities.…”

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Support workers’ understanding of their role supporting the sexuality of people with learning disabilities

Maguire

Gleeson

Holmes

2019

Brit J Learn Disabil

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Accessible Summary We asked support workers what they thought about their role supporting sexuality. They said they want to try to support sexuality and relationships but also have to keep people safe. They said they have lots of things to consider which makes it difficult. We think support workers need more training and advice to help them talk about some of their worries and difficulties supporting sexuality. Abstract BackgroundDespite positive attitudes amongst support staff towards sexuality, adults with learning disabilities report being dissatisfied with the support they receive. This research aimed to explore support workers’ understanding of their role supporting the sexuality of adults with learning disabilities. MethodSix support workers from supported living services were interviewed about their role. Data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. ResultsThree themes emerged which were understood as suggesting that support workers held conflicting beliefs and emotions about their role supporting sexuality. This was interpreted as creating an ambivalence that could result in support workers distancing themselves from an active role in supporting sexuality. ConclusionThis study concluded that support workers may inadvertently express an understanding of their role that may be consistent with negative and limiting discourses about the sexuality of adults with learning disabilities. The findings suggest a continuing need for sexuality training with a focus on reflective practice.

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Support workers’ understanding of their role supporting the sexuality of people with learning disabilities

Maguire

Gleeson

Holmes

2019

Brit J Learn Disabil

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“…To this extent though, parents and staff differed in their attitudes, with parents holding more conservative attitudes [24]. Yool, Langdon and Garner [25] examined the attitudes of staff toward the sexuality of adults with ID within a medium-secure hospital in the United Kingdom, with their analysis revealing that staff members generally held liberal attitudes with respect to sexuality and masturbation. However, with respect to sexual intercourse, homosexual relationships, and the involvement of adults with ID in decisions regarding their own sexuality, less liberal attitudes were detected.…”

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confidence: 99%

Caregiver awareness of reproductive health issues for women with intellectual disabilities

Lin

Hsu

et al. 2011

BMC Public Health

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BackgroundLimited attention has been paid to the issue of reproductive health as it affects women with intellectual disabilities, despite reproductive health being a vital issue in public health policy for women in the general population. This paper describes caregiver awareness of reproductive health issues relative to women with intellectual disabilities who are being cared for in welfare institutions in Taiwan.MethodsThe study employed a cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study which recruited 1,152 caregivers (response rate = 71.87%) from 32 registered disability welfare institutions in Taiwan. We classified their understanding/awareness of reproductive health issues into four domains: menstrual (1) and menopause (2) issues, sex education (3), and reproductive health services (4). Each domain had five associated yes/no questions and the total score for the four domains was out of a maximum of 20. Data were analyzed using SPSS 15.0 software.ResultsWe found that most of the caregivers were familiar with matters concerning sex education, menopause, and reproductive health services, but they lacked adequate understanding of issues associated with menstruation in women with ID. Many aspects of reproductive health such as "menstrual pain", "age at menarche", "masturbation", "diet during perimenopause", and "publicly available reproductive health services" were issues in which caregivers lacked adequate knowledge and required further instruction. Logistic regression analysis revealed that female caregivers with a university degree, and those who had experience assisting with reproductive health care were more inclined to have higher reproductive health awareness scores than their counterparts.ConclusionsThis study highlights that service providers should offer appropriate reproductive health education to institutional caregivers, and that more attention be focused on the personal experiences and concerns of intellectually disabled women in future research.

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“…Also, convergent results were obtained during the study with hospital personnel respondents. Among others, liberal attitudes were found towards emotional relations of persons with an intellectual disability in heterosexual relationships but lack of consent to sexual intercourse, and conversely to the study by Yool [25], liberal attitudes towards masturbation. Other studies with support staff showed lack of acceptance towards sexual behaviors of individuals with an intellectual disability [26].…”

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“…Evidence in favor of this form, but conditional ones, can be found in literature, where it is seen as a more favorable form than sexual intercourse [25, 30]. However, there is evidence for negative attitudes to masturbation, very often connected with stereotypical way of thinking about it and incidents of performing it in public places [35, 36].…”

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Model of Intellectual Disability and the Relationship of Attitudes Towards the Sexuality of Persons with an Intellectual Disability

Parchomiuk

2012

Sex Disabil

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The following article discusses the relationship between the model of intellectual disability and the attitudes towards sexuality of people with disabilities. This correlation has been verified during the author’s own research conducted on students of several medical faculties such as nursing, public health, emergency medical services and physiotherapy. Tools of the author’s design have been used in the research. Likert-type scale “Perspective of intellectual disability” has been used to determine the model of disability seen from the medical (individual) or social perspective. To examine the attitudes towards sexuality two tools of the author’s own design have been used: a Likert-type scale “The essence of sexuality in persons with an intellectual disability” which has been used to analyze the cognitive aspect of the attitudes, and a semantic differential with notions concerning physical and psychosocial aspects of sexuality including the affective-evaluative aspect. As expected, significant correlations have been found between the model and the attitudes both in the cognitive and the affective-evaluative aspect. Higher scores for the individual model correlated with: (a) lover scores for most aspects of sexuality of people with intellectual disability, (b) perceiving them as asexual, (c) biological determinism in the sexual sphere. The social model concurred with positive values given to sexuality of people with intellectual disability and its normalization in the sphere of its determinants and symptoms.

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Support workers’ understanding of their role supporting the sexuality of people with learning disabilities

Support workers’ understanding of their role supporting the sexuality of people with learning disabilities

Caregiver awareness of reproductive health issues for women with intellectual disabilities

Model of Intellectual Disability and the Relationship of Attitudes Towards the Sexuality of Persons with an Intellectual Disability

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