Cardiovascular changes resulting from sexual activity and sexual dysfunction after myocardial infarction: integrative review

Bispo, Gisele S; Lopes, Juliana de Lima; Barros, Alba Lúcia Bottura Leite de

doi:10.1111/jocn.12356

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“…Sexual health assessment in clinical practice is viewed as a private matter between partners by nurses and rarely discussed [26]. For example, in the United States, Lindau et al reported that only one-third of women and half of men with MI were educated about sexual health during their hospitalization [23].…”

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Barriers and Promoting Strategies to Sexual Health Assessment for Patients with Coronary Artery Diseases in Nursing Practice: A Literature Review

Bdair¹,

Constantino²

2017

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Background: Sexual health is an important and integral part of human health. Patients often voice their concerns regarding their sexual health after experiencing coronary artery diseases. Nurses face many barriers to conduct sexual health assessment. Although many sexual health instructions have been developed, nurses still pay little attention to sexual health assessment. Purpose: The purpose of this literature review was to identify the barriers and strategies that promoted sexual health assessment in clinical nursing practice. Design: A comprehensive search of the recent literature related to barriers and promoting strategies to sexual health assessment was undertaken. Methods: A review of literature published over the last 10 years on a wide variety of recent studies in nursing and related discipline in the field of sexual health was performed. Findings: Most studies indicated that sexual health was poorly addressed in clinical settings. Barriers to addressing sexual health are multifactorial; we classified them into four categories: patients related barriers, nurses related barriers, organizational related barriers and value related barriers. Many strategies to enhance sexual health assessment and counseling in clinical setting are summarized. Conclusion: Overall, it is evident that nurses encounter many barriers to sexual health assessment. Therefore, investigating these barriers and developing appropriate interventions are recommended.

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Section: Sexual Health Assessment In Clinical Practicementioning

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Barriers and Promoting Strategies to Sexual Health Assessment for Patients with Coronary Artery Diseases in Nursing Practice: A Literature Review

Bdair¹,

Constantino²

2017

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“…It is known that individuals with coronary disease experience sexual dysfunction due to fear of having MI again and effect of drugs [4]. It was shown in many studies that cancer patients also have sexual dysfunction.…”

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“…Sexual dysfunction is characterised by the presence of organic or psychological problems that lead to diminished desire or less frequent sexual activity [4]. It was reported that 54.4 % of diabetic women have sexual dysfunction [5], and that more than half of male patients with diabetes experience erectile dysfunction within 10 years after the diagnosis [6].…”

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Attitudes and Beliefs of Nurses Regarding Discussion of Sexual Concerns of Patients During Hospitalization

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The aim of the study was to describe nurses' attitudes and beliefs towards discussing sexuality with patients. Sexual health is a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being in relation to sexuality. Sexual dysfunction occurs quite commonly in the community. A descriptive and comparative design was adopted to explore Turkish nurses' attitudes and beliefs towards discussing sexuality with patients. The rate of participation of nurses was found to be 89 %. Data collection form consisted of two parts: demographic information and the inventory of Sexuality Attitudes and Beliefs Survey (SABS). Mean scores of the nurses SABS was 41.58 ± 7.67. Status of offering counselling on sexuality was found to be significantly related to the SABS scores (p \ 0.05). The majority of nurses (72.2 %) disagreed with spending more time to discuss sexual concerns with their patients, 68.9 % viewed sexuality as 'too private an issue to discuss'. In this study, it was established that nurses were aware of the concerns of the patients about sexuality, but their practical attempts to relieve those concerns were not adequate. In view of these results, it is recommended that sexuality should be discussed more openly in basic education curriculum and that inservice training on the issue of sexuality and health should be addressed.

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“…Furthermore, patients with MI often experience fatigue, impairments in physical activity (5), depression (6), and sexual dysfunction (7) as long effects of having MI. All of these symptoms can result in a low quality of life.…”

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Continuous Care Model and the Self-Management in Post-Myocardial Infarction Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Akbari

Vagharseyyedin

Toba

et al. 2016

Jundishapur J Chronic Dis Care

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Background: Self-management after myocardial infarction is fundamental to effective medical treatment. Objectives: The current study aimed to investigate the effects of applying the continuous care model on self-management of a sample of Iranian patients with post-myocardial infarction. Methods: Sixty hospitalized patients were randomly allocated into control (n = 30) and intervention (n = 30) groups. Before the intervention and at the end of it, self-management of both groups was evaluated by chronic disease self-management questionnaire. The continuous care model was performed for the intervention group for three months. The data were analyzed by SPSS version 16. In addition to descriptive statistical tests, Chi-square, the exact Fisher, Willcoxon and Mann-Whitney, and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) tests were used. The significant level was set at P < 0.05. Results: There was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of sub-dimensions of self-management scores before the intervention (P > 0.05). At the end of the intervention, in all self-management sub-dimensions expect for shortness of breath, the status of intervention group improved significantly more than that of the control group (P < 0.005). Moreover, mean of changes in all sub-dimensions of self-management showed no significant difference, but fatigue and health care utilization between the two groups had significant difference. Conclusions: The continuous care model can be considered as a useful tool to improve patients' self-management after myocardial infarction.

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Cardiovascular changes resulting from sexual activity and sexual dysfunction after myocardial infarction: integrative review

Abstract: Despite the subject's importance, there are few studies on nursing guidance concerning sexual activity; moreover, addressing sexuality with patients is still a challenge for nurses.

Cited by 29 publications

References 37 publications

Barriers and Promoting Strategies to Sexual Health Assessment for Patients with Coronary Artery Diseases in Nursing Practice: A Literature Review

Barriers and Promoting Strategies to Sexual Health Assessment for Patients with Coronary Artery Diseases in Nursing Practice: A Literature Review

Attitudes and Beliefs of Nurses Regarding Discussion of Sexual Concerns of Patients During Hospitalization

Continuous Care Model and the Self-Management in Post-Myocardial Infarction Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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