Metaphorical perceptions of nursing students toward sexuality during pregnancy: An example of metaphor analysis

IF 3.6 2区医学 Q1 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES

Nurse Education Today Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI:10.1016/j.nedt.2025.106726

İlknur Gökşin, Arzu Yüksel

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Abstract

Background

Pregnancy is one of the periods of life in which women's sexuality is negatively affected by the cultural structure of society and false beliefs. Determining the perspectives of nurse candidates on sexuality during pregnancy will contribute to the training of nurses who will be able to evaluate sexuality and provide holistic health care in the future.

Objectives

This study aims to describe the metaphorical perceptions of nursing students toward sexuality during pregnancy through metaphors.

Design

A metaphor analysis technique based on phenomenological method.

Methods

This study was conducted with 317 nursing students in Turkey. The study data were collected with questionnaire form prepared by the researchers between January and February 2024. In the first part of the questionnaire, questions about socio-demographic characteristics were included, and in the second part, the sentence “Sexuality during pregnancy is like., because.” was included to determine the metaphors developed by the students about sexuality during pregnancy. The 317 valid metaphors revealing the students' perceptions of the concept of sexuality during pregnancy were grouped under 3 categories; “Creating danger and causing harm”, “Need/necessity or usual”, and “Unnecessary, wrong or should not be”.

Conclusions

In the study, students provided metaphors containing both positive and negative concepts related to sexuality during pregnancy. However, the majority of the metaphors produced contain negative concepts. It is recommended that a sexuality/sexual health course covering sexuality and nursing care in different life periods such as pregnancy be added to the nursing education curriculum in order to determine the perspectives of nursing candidates on pregnancy sexuality, to make them aware of their attitudes and beliefs, and to ensure that they are prepared for the situations they may encounter in health care after graduation.

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Nurse Education Today 医学-护理

CiteScore

6.90

自引率

12.80%

发文量

349

审稿时长

58 days

期刊介绍： Nurse Education Today is the leading international journal providing a forum for the publication of high quality original research, review and debate in the discussion of nursing, midwifery and interprofessional health care education, publishing papers which contribute to the advancement of educational theory and pedagogy that support the evidence-based practice for educationalists worldwide. The journal stimulates and values critical scholarly debate on issues that have strategic relevance for leaders of health care education. The journal publishes the highest quality scholarly contributions reflecting the diversity of people, health and education systems worldwide, by publishing research that employs rigorous methodology as well as by publishing papers that highlight the theoretical underpinnings of education and systems globally. The journal will publish papers that show depth, rigour, originality and high standards of presentation, in particular, work that is original, analytical and constructively critical of both previous work and current initiatives. Authors are invited to submit original research, systematic and scholarly reviews, and critical papers which will stimulate debate on research, policy, theory or philosophy of nursing and related health care education, and which will meet and develop the journal''s high academic and ethical standards.