title: Nursing assessment of altered sexuality: a review of salient factors and objective measures.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Nursing assessment of altered sexuality.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To review salient factors affecting assessment and objective measures available for use in assessment.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature specific to nursing assessment of sexuality and to instruments measuring altered sexuality.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Many standards of care include the assessment of sexuality, and nurses believe it to be an important aspect of care. However, the assessment of altered sexuality does not often occur in actual practice. The use of an objective measure of sexuality is recommended for both initial and on-going assessments in acute-care and community-based settings.
authors.affiliation: Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: LeMone
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012735:Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological / Q000451:nursing*; D019529:Sexuality; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires