Nursing, sexual health and youth with disabilities: a critical ethnography

Abstract

Nurses occupy and strive to maintain, the role of a caring agent. However, aspects of the clinical, institutional and broader social environments may undermine their ability to promote sexual health. In nurses' efforts to maintain therapeutic relationships with clients, sexual health is often medicalised to legitimize it as an appropriate topic of discussion with patients and families. Facilities serving youth with disabilities should take steps to address barriers to the delivery of sexual health promotion and several solutions are proposed.

The Encounters and Challenges of Ethnography as a Methodology in Health Research

“…Using prolonged engagement and triangulation as approaches for data collection will also serve the purpose of establishing credibility. Further, prolonged engagement will help participants become comfortable with the researchers' presence in their natural settings (McCabe & Holmes, 2013;McElroy et al, 2011).…”

“…We have examined a large body of literature in health research which indicates that qualitative studies conducted in health research have overlooked the importance of the ontological and epistemological underpinnings (Braaf et al, 2014;Bright et al, 2012;Carroll et al, 2008;Kidd & Finlayson, 2010;McCabe & Holmes, 2013;Pino, Soriano, & Higginbottom, 2013). Epistemology is the theory of understanding.…”

“…With technological development, studies in health research are depending on modern techniques as means of data collection. Recent studies in health research have used a wide range of advance techniques to collect data such as DVD, video recordings (Liu, Manias, & Gerdtz, 2012;McCabe & Holmes, 2013), and picture/snapshots (Gates, Lackey, & Brown, 2001). Further, journal entries (White & Seibold, 2008), written reflections of the participants' experiences (Bright, Boland, Rutherford, Kayes, & McPherson, 2012), and reflexive focus groups (Liu et al, 2012) are being used as a major sources of data collection in ethnographic health research studies.…”

Experiences of midwifery students, about to give care for women with disability<p>Ebelik öğrencilerinin engelli kadınlara bakım verme deneyimleri

“…Sağlık personelinin olumsuz tutumları, ayarlanabilir muayene masalarının eksikliği, hastane içi fiziksel sınırlılıklar (dar kapılar, erişilmesi zor banyolar ve odalar) gibi nedenler engelli kadınların sağlık kurumlarına ulaşmasında zorluk oluşturmakta, dolayısıyla gebelik, doğum ve doğum sorası bakım almalarını engellemektedir (McCabe & Holmes, 2013). Bu nedenle sağlık bakım profesyonellerinin ve özelikle ebelerin, engelli kadınların üreme sağlığına yönelik muayenelerinde neden rahatsızlık duyduklarının farkına varabilmeli ve onların gereksinimlerini belirleyerek, kadınların en iyi şartlarda bakım almalarını sağlamaları gerekmektedir.…”

Correction to: Sexuality and Reproductive Health in Young People with Disability: A Systematic Review of Issues and Challenges

“…McCabe and Holmes [28] conducted a critical ethnographical study to explore the experiences of nurses providing sex education to adolescents with physical disabilities. Their findings highlight a need to build a relationship among nurses, patients, and family members to support the sexual lives of YPWD.…”