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Students carry attitudes and beliefs that influence their behavior; therefore, students who carry negative attitudes about sexual healthcare are less likely to provide that care. This is an international, multicenter study of nursing students\u2019 attitudes and beliefs about the provision of sexual healthcare. The Sexuality Attitudes and Beliefs Survey, which measures attitudes toward the provision of sexual healthcare and has a range of scores from 12 to 72, was given to 129 students across Spain, Portugal, Italy and the United States and revealed negative attitudes about sexuality, with a mean SABS score of 39.95. Higher scores on the SABS reveal more negative attitudes and reduced likelihood of provision of sexual healthcare. Statistically significant differences were found when comparing queer and heterosexual students (41.69 vs. 38.06), and students in their final year of school held more negative attitudes toward the provision of sexual healthcare (41.4 vs. 39.5 and 39.2). This study shows that nurse educators continue to need to focus on the attitudes student nurses carry about sexuality. There is a critical shortage of education strategies to meet the needs of student nurses so that they will be comfortable and confident in providing sexual healthcare.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/healthcare11162238","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,9]],"date-time":"2023-08-09T10:21:50Z","timestamp":1691576510000},"page":"2238","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["A Multicentric Pilot Study of Student Nurse Attitudes and Beliefs toward Sexual Healthcare"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2562-5678","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vicki","family":"Aaberg","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Health Sciences, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA 98119, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6885-530X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Eva","family":"Moncunill-Mart\u00ednez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Paediatric Oncology Unit, Toledo University Hospital, Av. del R\u00edo Guadiana, 45007 Toledo, Spain"},{"name":"Faculty of Physiotherapy and Nursing, Toledo Campus, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Avda Carlos III, s\/n, 45071 Toledo, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9038-8576","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ana","family":"Fr\u00edas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nursing Department, University of Evora, 7000-811 Evora, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Teresa","family":"Carreira","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Superior School of Health, Quinta do Mergulh\u00e3o Sr\u00aa da Guia, 2005-075 Santar\u00e9m, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9013-7734","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Raquel Fern\u00e1ndez","family":"Cezar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mathematics, Didactics Area, Faculty of Education of Toledo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Avda F\u00e1brica de Armas, s\/n, 45071 Toledo, Spain"}]},{"given":"Alba","family":"Mart\u00edn-Forero Santacruz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Infanta Cristina University Hospital, Av. 9 de Junio, 2, 28981 Madrid, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6190-5298","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"F\u00e1tima","family":"Frade","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Departamento de Enfermagem da Crian\u00e7a e do Jovem, Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa, AvenidabProfessor Egas Moniz, 1600-190 Lisboa, Portugal"},{"name":"Nursing Research, Innovation and Development Centre of Lisbon (CIDNUR), Centre for Public Administration and Public Policies, Institute of Social and Political Sciences, Universidade de Lisboa, 1300-663 Lisboa, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0442-050X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Daniela","family":"Mecugni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Campus Universitario San Lazzaro, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, V\u00eda Amendola, 2, 42122 Reggio Emilia, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9640-0409","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sagrario","family":"G\u00f3mez-Cantarino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Physiotherapy and Nursing, Toledo Campus, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Avda Carlos III, s\/n, 45071 Toledo, Spain"},{"name":"Health Sciences Research Unit: Nursing (UICISA: E), Coimbra Nursing School (ESEnfC), 3004-011 Coimbra, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"WHO (2022, November 23). 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