Comparison of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Acute Care Nurses Perceptions of Providing Sexual Counseling for Cardiac Patients
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Abstract
In Brief PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine the differences between outpatient cardiac rehabilitation (CR) and acute care nurses perceived barriers and clinical practices of providing sexual counseling for myocardial infarction patients. METHODS: A nonexperimental descriptive, comparative research design with convenience sampling was used to survey CR and acute care nurses using the Survey of Sexuality Related Nursing Practice-Myocardial Infarction questionnaire. RESULTS: A total of 320 nurses (81 CR nurses, 239 acute care nurses), in midwestern states completed the survey. Using ANCOVA analyses with age, work status, and education level as covariates, findings demonstrated CR nurses had significantly higher levels of role responsibility (F[4, 315] = 5.4, P < .05) and implementation of sexual counseling in clinical practice (F[4, 315] = 9.1, P < .0001). CONCLUSIONS: Findings from this study further elucidate the influence of practice settings on the actual implementation of patient education and counseling of cardiac patients regarding sexual functioning. Outpatient CR nurses reported fewer barriers and reported higher rates of implementing sexual counseling into their practice. These findings support the importance of CR referral to provide both physical and psychosocial rehabilitation after a cardiac event. Findings bring to light the need to address the gap in practice to meet the perceived unmet needs of patients regarding their concerns of sexual functioning while hospitalized and for those patients who may not enroll in CR after hospital discharge. Perceived barriers and clinical practices of providing sexual counseling for patients following acute myocardial infarction by outpatient cardiac rehabilitation (CR) nurses were compared. Outpatient CR nurses demonstrated significantly higher levels of role responsibility and implementation of sexual counseling in clinical practice.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.016 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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