title: Effects of a sexual health care nursing record on the attitudes and practice of oncology nurses.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A nursing record focused on sexual health care for patients with cancer could encourage oncology nurses to provide sexual health care for oncology patients in a simple and effective manner. However, existing electronic information systems focus on professional use and not sexual health care, which could lead to inefficiencies in clinical practice.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To examine the effects of a sexual health care nursing record on the attitudes and practice of oncology nurses.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-four full-time registered nurses caring for oncology patients were randomly assigned to the intervention and control groups in Korea. The researchers developed a sexual health care record and applied it to the intervention group for one month. Data were analyzed by Mann-Whitney U test and chi-square test. Content analysis was used to analyze interviews.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Oncology nurses using the sexual health care record had significantly higher levels of sexual health care practice at 4 weeks post-intervention as compared to those who provided usual care to patients with cancer.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A sexual health care record may have the potential to facilitate oncology nurses' practice of sexual health care. This study highlighted the importance of using SHC records with oncology patients to improve nursing practice related to sexuality issues. A nursing record focused on SHC for patients with cancer could make it easier and more effective for oncology nurses to provide such care to their patients.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Ewha Womans University, #309 Hellen hall, 52, Ewhayeodae-gil, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-750, Korea.
authors.forename: Dukyoo
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero Seocho-gu, Seoul 06591, Korea. Electronic address: jhee90@catholic.ac.kr.
authors.forename: Jung-Hee
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing*; D009726:Nurses; D009737:Nursing Records; D009859:Oncology Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D057184:Practice Patterns, Nurses'; D060728:Reproductive Health; D019529:Sexuality
keywords: Attitude; Nursing record; Practice; Sexual health