The Nurses’ Sexual Health Survey Of General Hospitals In Suzou City

ObjectivesBased on the nurses′sexual attitude and sexual behavior survey of general hospitalsin suzhou city, to explore the influencing factors of sexual health. Further, by analysis ofthe related factors of sexual dysfunction, to provide the scientific basis for earlyintervention, so as to improve the sexual health level of nurses.Methods1. Subjectives: According to the method of random cluster sampling,6generalhospitals in Suzhou City was selected, and all nurses with more than1years experience in6hospitals were as investigation objects.2. Investigation contents: According to the research purpose," Nurses′Health statusquestionnaire of general hospital in Suzhou city "was disigned, the contents mainly includethe following aspects:(1)The basic characteristics of demography: including age, culturaldegree, professional title, marital status, economic income;(2) the adolescent information:including age at menarche and residence at14-years old;(3) the investigation of healthstatus and disease history;(4)physical measurements: height, weight, chest circumferenceand waist circumference;(5)the living habits: smoking, drinking, physical exercise;(6)thesexual attitudes and behaviors;(7)the female sexual function index (FSFI).3. Investigationmethods: Grouped by the department, the head nurse is responsible for organizing thenurses to designated locations to participate in the questionnaire investigation. Theinvestigators distributed the questionnaires to nurses with their informed consents, andthey filled the questionnaires by themselves. Once copmpleted the qusetinnaires, nursesfold questionnaires into the locked box, then the box was brought back to the reseacher. 4. Statistical analysis: Questionnaire is double entered using the EpiData3.1softwareby two individuals and checked. SPSS13.0statistical software was used for statisticalanalysis. Mean, standard deviation was computed to describe the measurement data, thecomparison between the two groups using t test; Proportion or prevalence was computedfor count data, the differences between groups compared with chi-square test or adjustedchi-square test. Both sides tests are used for comparison between groups and thesignificance level was set0.05. The influence factors of female sexual dysfunction byunconditional Logistic regression models were analyzed, and the stepwise regressionmethod was used to select variables, the alpha levels for adding or deleting variables wereboth set0.10.Results1.Nurses′sexual attitudes: Most of the nurses held positive attitudes about sex, payattention to privacy protection.81.1%of nurses agreed that having sex is good,75.9%ofnurses are reluctant to share experiences with others. More were open to the premarital sexbehavior,44.1%of nurses accepted if her boy friend had sex with others.32.7%of nursesthought sex had no impact on their own, if not pregnant.62.6%of nurses are ready to havesex.2. Nurses′sexual behavior: Total81.0%of nurses had sexual fantasies, and21.0%of nurses reported have masturbation,3.4%of nurses have multiple partners during the last12months."Sex" self-reported that persons with2times/day,1to3times/week,1to3times/month, once/2-3month, and asexual doer respectively accounted for1.2%,0.7%,28.3%,38.1%,28.3%and23.8%.3.Nurse′sexual attitudes influence factors:86.7%of nurses aged31-40years oldapproved that "sex is a good thing". With the increase of age, the proportion of willing toshare experiences with friends gradually decline. The higher education level as well as thetitle nurses had, the higher of proportion in favor of "sex is a good thing" there was amongnurses.Nurses with a sexual partner had a higher proportion to appoved that the items like"sex is good"," sex is expected"," if not pregnant, have sex with no influence on me". And unmarried nurses had a lower proportion to appoved that "sex is good", but they likelyshared their sexual experience.In addition, the income and "sex tolerance" had no correlation. On the night shiftnurse had a high proportion to support the idea of "sex can be shared". Differentdepartment nurses have significant sexual attitude, most of the emergency/ICU nursesidentity "sex is a good", medical and surgical nurses were willing to accept premarital sexthan other department nurses. And maternity nurse agreed to share experiences, however,outpatient service nurse were conservative to sex than other departments.4.Nurse′sexual behavior influence factors: Nurses aged31-40had stronger "sexualinterest, and" more frequent sex ". According to the self reports, nurses aged more than40years old and less than22years old had more partners, compared with other age groups,during the past12months. Nurses with high education level had higher proportions to havestronger "sexual interest, and" more frequent sex ". Nurses with technical secondary schooleducation as the highest education experience had more sexual partners than other nurses.Self-reported proportion of having sexual fantasies among nurses with a sexual partner(including unmarried cohabitation/married/remarried) was higher than that among nurseswith other marital status. Self-reported propotion of having masturbation and manypartners was higher among nurses with a separated/divorced/widowed marital status thanothers. In addition, on the night shift nurse self-reported to have more sexual fantasies,masturbation, and more frequent sexual intercourse than those who did not need on thenight shift.5. Nurses′female sexual function index (FSFI) and the influence factors of femalesexual dysfunction (FSD): Mean of FSFI score among the case group (FSD) was19.23,and the score was27.03among the control group, the difference between the two groupswas statistically significant (P<0.001). Six domain of FSFI in the case group scoredsignificantly lower than the control group. Total prevalence of FSD was86.7%in thisstudy. Compared with the less than22years old, older than40is the main risk factor of theFSD; compared with who live in dormitories, the renter before she got married had a lower risk of FSD; person with1times a week and more of social interaction had a lower risk ofFSD, compared with less than1times.Conclutions1. Nurses′sexual attitude are open in general hospitals of suzhou city, Most peopleagree that sex is happy, but they pay attention to the protection of privacy sex, some nursesthink sex is the casual, so the administrative department of the hospital should strengthenguidance.2. Nurses had a greater incidence of masturbation and there are a few nurses havemore partners in general hospitals of suzhou city.3. Nurses with different age, different education, job title, marital status, income,departments and the night shift, and on the night shift and not on the night shift nurses haddifferent views and behavior to sex.4. Nurses had a higher FSD prevalence in suzhou general hospitals, and individualsmore than40years old are more prone to be a FSD patient.