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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Autores: Aliri Lazcano, Jone, Prego Jiménez, Sara, Goñi Balentziaga, Olatz, Pereda Pereda, Eva, Pérez Tejada, Joana, Labaka Etxeberria, Ainitze
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Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
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Palabra clave:adaptation
gender awareness
nursing
questionnaire
validity
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spelling Gender awareness is also nurses' business: Measuring sensitivity and role ideology towards patientsAliri Lazcano, JonePrego Jiménez, SaraGoñi Balentziaga, OlatzPereda Pereda, EvaPérez Tejada, JoanaLabaka Etxeberria, Ainitzeadaptationgender awarenessnursingquestionnairevalidityAim: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.Wiley202420242022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/64821reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoIngléshttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jonm.13866info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/© 2022 The Authors. Journal of Nursing Management published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/648212026-06-18T09:23:17Z
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title Gender awareness is also nurses' business: Measuring sensitivity and role ideology towards patients
spellingShingle Gender awareness is also nurses' business: Measuring sensitivity and role ideology towards patients
Aliri Lazcano, Jone
adaptation
gender awareness
nursing
questionnaire
validity
title_short Gender awareness is also nurses' business: Measuring sensitivity and role ideology towards patients
title_full Gender awareness is also nurses' business: Measuring sensitivity and role ideology towards patients
title_fullStr Gender awareness is also nurses' business: Measuring sensitivity and role ideology towards patients
title_full_unstemmed Gender awareness is also nurses' business: Measuring sensitivity and role ideology towards patients
title_sort Gender awareness is also nurses' business: Measuring sensitivity and role ideology towards patients
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Aliri Lazcano, Jone
Prego Jiménez, Sara
Goñi Balentziaga, Olatz
Pereda Pereda, Eva
Pérez Tejada, Joana
Labaka Etxeberria, Ainitze
author Aliri Lazcano, Jone
author_facet Aliri Lazcano, Jone
Prego Jiménez, Sara
Goñi Balentziaga, Olatz
Pereda Pereda, Eva
Pérez Tejada, Joana
Labaka Etxeberria, Ainitze
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Goñi Balentziaga, Olatz
Pereda Pereda, Eva
Pérez Tejada, Joana
Labaka Etxeberria, Ainitze
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv adaptation
gender awareness
nursing
questionnaire
validity
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gender awareness
nursing
questionnaire
validity
description 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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