Evaluation of midwives' knowledge, attitudes, and opinions about LGBTI Individuals

Nazlı A. Sezer, AyÁasultan Kılıç, Seda F. Emre, Ezgi Tuna, Nazlı S. Kurt

Abstract

LGBTI is an umbrella concept created by abbreviating the initials of the concepts lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex. This study aims to investigate midwives' knowledge, attitudes and opinions towards LGBTI individuals. The sample of the study consisted of 264 midwives working in Turkey between January and March 2023. An information form consisting of questions about socio-demographic characteristics and LGBTI and the "Homosexuality Attitude Scale" was used to collect data.The average age of the midwives in the study was 28 ± 7.25 years, 82.6% of the midwives said they heard about LGBTI from the internet and social media, 37.1% said LGBTI individuals were very sensitive and vulnerable, 36.7% said being LGBTI was a psychological problem, 59.8% said they may have difficulty in educating LGBTI individuals, and 28.4% said there were LGBTI individuals in their circle of friends. The average score of the midwives on the Homosexual Attitude Scale was 165.56±2.14. In this study, it was decided that the attitudes of the midwives participating in the study towards homosexuals were negative and that they did not have enough information about LGBTI.

Full Text:

PDF

References

Bilgilier HA and İnceli P. Production and Spread of Sexual

Identity-Based Hate Speech in New Media: Example

of Youtube. Global Media Journal TR Edition

;12(23): 28-57.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358683792

Aslan K and Toker «D. Being LGBT in Turkey: Crosssectional data analysis in the triangle of

discrimination, violence, satisfaction Bidge Yayınları

;210

AyÁiÁek M. The effect of social media and social media

phenomena on homophobia. İstanbul Gelişim

University 2020; Master's Thesis.

Ekitli GB and «am MO. A review of Our Handicapped Area

of Care Process for, LGBTI. Journal of Psychiatric

Nursing 2017;8(3):179-187.

https://doi.org/10.14744/phd.2017.97659

Bülbül A and Başar K. Incarceration, sexual identity and

health. Community and Physician (2023); 38(1): 43-

Durmuş H, Balcı E, Solak Y and Timur A. Discrimination

based on sexual orientation: Homophobia in intern

physicians. Medical Research Reports 2018; 4(3): 18-

Karataban E and Balcıoğlu İ. Examining discrimination

based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the

context of hate crimes. Intellectual Human and

Society Journal 2021;7(2): 169-190.

https://doi.org/10.17932/IAU.AIT.2015.012/ait_v07i

Soner G and Altay B. Health of Homosexual and Bisexual

Individuals and Nursing Care. S¸leyman Demirel

University Journal of Health Sciences

;10(4):454-459.

DOI: 10.22312/sdusbed.520068

Başar K. Sexual identity and health inequality: Medicine

beyond the individual and the clinic. Community and

Physician 2020;35(4): 252-268.

Deniz Doğan S, Karaçay Yıkar S, Atıcı M and Arslan S. The

approach of nurses working in the plastic surgery

service to transgender individuals who have gender

reassignment surgery. Cukurova Medical Journal

; 45(4): 1355-1360.

https://doi.org/10.17826/cumj.726189

Hasan K and Kırman T. Homophobia: A Theoretical and

Empirical Assessment. Researcher: Social Science

Studies 2020;8(1): 86-104.

Karaca P. Examining the discrimination that LGBTI

individuals may face in the health sector. Adnan

Menderes University 2019; Master's Thesis.

İpek RE and Türk Delibalta R. Determining university

students' views on homosexuality. Journal of Life

Long Nursing 2022;3(1); 36-55.

Kanbur N. Internalized homophobia in adolescents: Is it

really about culture or religion? Journal of The

Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent

Psychiatry 2020;29(2):124-126.

Ventriglio A, Castaldelli-Maia JM Torales J, Berardis DD

and Bhugra D. Homophobia and mental health: A

scourge of modern era. Epidemiology and Psychiatric

Sciances 2021;30:1-3.

https://doi.org/10.1017/S2045796021000391

Vildosola-Oyarce O, Fernandez-Rodriguez A and SintjagoMaury E. Association between homophobia and

sociodemographic characteristics in health workers in

southern Chile. International Journal of

Environmental Research and Public Health

;19(13749):1-9.

https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192113749

Zeeman L, Sherriff N, Browne K, McGlynn N, Mirandola

M, Gios L, Davis R, Sanchez-Lambert J, Aujean S,

Pinto N, Farinella F, Donisi V, NiedzwiedzkaStadnik M, Rosinska M, Pierson A and Amaddeo F.

A review of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex

(LGBTI) health and healthcare inequalities. The

European Journal of Public Health 2019;29(5): 974-

https://doi.org/ 10.1093/eurpub/cky226

King M, Semlyen J, Tai SS, Killaspy H, Osborn D,

Popelyuk D and Nazareth I. A systematic review of

mental disorder, suicide and delibare self harm in

lesbian, gay and bisexual people. BMC Psychiatry

;8(70):1-17. doi:10.1186/1471-244X-8-70

G¸nbegi M, Uygul ES, Turla A and Aydın B. Experiences

of LGBTI+ individuals in accessing right to health; a

survey study from Turkey. African Health Sciences

;22(4): 325-333.

https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v22i4.38

Albuquerque GA, Quirino GS, Figueiredo Santos FW,

Paiva LS, Abreu LC, Valenti VE, Nascimento VB,

Maciel ES, Peixoto Quaresma FR and Adami F.

Sexual diversity and homophobia in health care

services: Perceptions of homosexual and bisexual

population in the cross-cultural theory. Open Journal

of Nursing 2016; 6:470-482.

https://doi.org/10.4236/ojn.2016.66049

Doğan S, Doğan M, Baştepe E and Eker E. Development,

validity and reliability study of the Homosexual

Attitude Scale: A preliminary study. Anatolian

Journal of Psychiatry 2008;9:84-90.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289814655

Yüksel R, Arslantaş H, Eskin M and Kızılkaya M. The

factors affecting the attitudes of nursing students

towards homosexual individuals. New Symposium

;58(1):18-25.

DOI: 10.5455/NYS.20200119070637

Utaş Akhan L and Ünsal Barlas G. Study of health care

providers and attitudes against homosexual, bisexual

individuals. International Journal of Human Sciences

;10(1):434-444.

Bostanci Dastan N. The attitudes of nursing students towards lesbians and gay males in Turkey.

International Journal of Nursing Practice

;21(4):376-82.

https://doi.org/10.1111/ijn.12294

Greene MZ, France K, Kreider EF, Wolfe-Roubatis E, Chen

KD, Wu A and Yehia BR. Comparing medical,

dental, and nursing students' preparedness to address

lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer health.

PLoS One 2018;13(9):1-16.

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0204104

K¸Á¸kkaya B and S¸t HK. Attitude of nursing school

students towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender

and ıntersex (LGBTI) individuals. Journal of

Continuing Medical Education 2018;27(6):373-383.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328759523

Lim FA and Hsu R. Nursing students' attitudes toward

lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons: An

integrative review. Nursing Education Perspectives

;37(3):144-152.

DOI: 10.1097/01.nep.0000000000000004

÷calan S and HiÁdurmaz D. Thoughts of clinical nurses

about LGBTI individuals: A cross sectional

descriptive study from T¸rkiye. Journal of Nursing

Effect 2024;17(1):12-24.

https://doi.org/10.46483/deuhfed.1161605

Akmeşe ZB and Alış B. Gender change as per the views of

health sciences faculty students. Mediterranean

Journal of Women's Studies and Gender

;6(1):123-139.

https://doi.org/10.33708/ktc.1234022

Mete A and Özerdoğan N. The Evaluation of the

Knowledge, Opinions and Attitudes among the

Students of Midwifery Department about LGBTs

(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender). Journal of

Continuing Medical Education 2019;28(3):163-171.

DOI:10.17942/sted.403797

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.