Gender awareness is also nurses' business: Measuring sensitivity and role ideology towards patients
Aim:This study aims to validate the Nijmegen Gender Awareness in Medicine Scale,which assesses gender sensitivity and gender-role ideology towards patients in theSpanish language for use among physicians and nurses.Background:Women are more likely to suffer pain, delays and health consequencesrelate...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad del País Vasco |
| Repositorio: | Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/64821 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/64821 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | adaptation gender awareness nursing questionnaire validity |
| Sumario: | Aim:This study aims to validate the Nijmegen Gender Awareness in Medicine Scale,which assesses gender sensitivity and gender-role ideology towards patients in theSpanish language for use among physicians and nurses.Background:Women are more likely to suffer pain, delays and health consequencesrelated to low therapeutic effort. Health professionals’gender awareness may mini-mize such bias; however, the only instrument to assess such awareness is limited tophysicians and lacks a Spanish version.Methods:After using the back-translation method, a sample of 167 Spanish nursesand nursing students completed the instrument. In order to obtain additional validityevidence, 98 health professionals filled in gender sensitivity and gender-role ideologytowards patients’subscales and the short versions of the Ambivalent SexismInventory.Results:Gender-role ideology towards patients correlated strongly with sexist atti-tudes, demonstrating convergent validity, and Cronbach’s alpha coefficients showedan adequate internal consistency.Conclusions:Nijmegen Gender Awareness in Medicine Scale perfectly applies tonurse population, and this adaptation also broadens its use for Spanish professionals.Implications for Nursing Management:Nurse managers and educators can use thisapplicable tool to treat low gender awareness levels as a modifiable risk factor andpromote a gender-sensitive caring culture. |
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