ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1513090
Exploring the Attitudes and beliefs of Saudi Female Nursing Students towards Sexual Healthcare: Mixed Method Study
Provisionally accepted
- 1Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- 2University of Hafr Al Batin, Hafar Al Batin, Saudi Arabia
- 3Department of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing and Community Health, College of Nursing, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia
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Objectives: This study aims to explore the attitudes and beliefs of Saudi female nursing students towards sexual healthcare.: A mixed-methods research design was employed on a sample of 247 Saudi female undergraduate nursing students using a non-probability sampling technique that incorporated a combination of purposive and snowball sampling. The participants completed an online questionnaire covering sociodemographic characteristics and the Sexual Attitudes and Beliefs Scale (SABS), two open-ended questions asking about the reasons for denying sexual healthcare and related issues.The study found that nursing students had a poor attitude towards discussing sexuality as essential to patients' health outcomes, with a mean score of 2.3 (SD=1.4). Correlational analyses revealed a significantly high positive correlation between age and year of the program (r =.828, p<.001), a significant but very low positive association between age and Grade Point Average (GPA) (r =.198, p =.046), and a significant negative correlation between the belief that "discussing sexuality is essential to patients' health outcomes" and nursing students' GPA (r =-.173, p =.006).The exploration of Saudi female nursing students' attitudes and beliefs towards sexual healthcare reveals a nuanced landscape where attitudes vary across different aspects of sexual health discussions.
Keywords: attitudes, Belief, sexual, Health Care, nursing students
Received: 17 Oct 2024; Accepted: 26 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Almegewly, Khedr and Hussein. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Wafa Almegewly, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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