An interventional study of Bring it up - Assessment and support of patients' sexuality in cancer nursing in Neoplasms, Nurse-Patient Relations and Sexuality, sponsored by Karlstad University. Status unknown at 1 site in Sweden. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-03-13.
Sponsored by Karlstad University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research
The purpose of the SexCan - WebEd Nurse study is to evaluate the effect of a five week online university course, "Bring it up - Assessment and support of patients' sexuality in cancer nursing", aimed at cancer nurses, on occupational self-efficacy and attitudes towards addressing sexuality with patients.
Cancer nurses attending the course will be recruited. Effects will be used with a pre-post design at two occasions or until we reach 15 participants. Survey data will be collected at baseline and two times post the course. Qualitative interviews with participants will also be performed as well as observational data from the seminars in the course.
The participants' ward managers will also be invited to qualitative interviews considering how to implement the nurses' new knowledge clinically.
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This study's planned enrollment of 18 is below the median of 50 across 7,432 interventional studies indexed under Neoplasms.
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- Registered nurses working as a contact nurses in cancer care who are admitted to the intervention university course.
Exclusion Criteria:
- N/A.
Participants complete baseline assessments and are then assigned the intervention.
Other: Bring it up - Assessment and support of patients' sexuality in cancer nursing
Participants will attend a five week online university course, "Bring it up - Assessment and support of patients' sexuality in cancer nursing". The course addresses theories and models about sexuality in relation to cancer illness, conversation techniques, models for addressing sensitive topics, methods for assessing the impact of cancer on sexuality, methods for preventing and treating sexual problems in relation to cancer, relevant nursing interventions for person-centred counselling about sexuality, and ethical aspects. The teaching consists of literature, online lectures, seminars, clinical practice, and written exams. A university certificate will be issued to participants who pass all exams.
Change in Occupational Self-Efficacy (from baseline to 5 weeks post finished intervention)
Measured with the "Short Occupational Self-Efficacy Scale". This instrument ranges from 6 to 36 points, where higher values indicate a higher grade of self-efficacy.
Time frame: At baseline and then 5 weeks post finished intervention.
Change in Occupational Self-Efficacy (from baseline to 19 weeks post finished intervention)
Measured with the "Short Occupational Self-Efficacy Scale"
Time frame: At baseline and then 19 weeks post finished intervention.
Change in Attitudes towards addressing sexuality (from baseline to 5 weeks post finished intervention)
Measured with the "Sexual Health - Extended Version - Swedish (PASH-Ext-S)". The instrument ranges from 27 to 135 points. Higher values indicate a higher degree of positive attitudes to addressing sexuality.
Time frame: At baseline and then 5 weeks post finished intervention.
Change in Attitudes towards addressing sexuality (from baseline to 19 weeks post finished intervention)
Measured with the "Sexual Health - Extended Version - Swedish (PASH-Ext-S)"
Time frame: At baseline and then 19 weeks post finished intervention.
Change in Knowledge about the influence of cancer on sexuality (from baseline to 5 weeks post finished intervention)
Study specific questionnaire
Time frame: At baseline and then 5 post finished intervention.
Change in Knowledge about the influence of cancer on sexuality (from baseline to 19 weeks post finished intervention)
Study specific questionnaire
Time frame: At baseline and then 19 weeks post finished intervention.
Change in Number of conversations with patients relating to sexuality (from baseline to 5 weeks post finished intervention)
Time frame: At baseline and then 5 weeks post finished intervention.
Change in Number of conversations with patients relating to sexuality (from baseline to 5 weeks post finished intervention)
Time frame: At baseline and then 19 weeks post finished intervention.
Started Oct 2022 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Mar 2024, 17 months after the start.
Of 1,358 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Neoplasms, half reached primary completion within 37 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 17 and three quarters within 71. This study's planned 17 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 1,404 studies reached it within 38 months; a quarter within 17 and three quarters within 71.
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