Genitalia-related nursing embarrassment and its associated factors among female nurses in mainland China: a nationwide cross-sectional study

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Genital-related care is a common nursing procedure and may cause embarrassment for nurses. However, nurses' level of embarrassment and the factors associated with embarrassment have been scarcely studied. Therefore, a cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate genitalia-related care's embarrassment and its associated factors among Chinese female nurses. METHODS: Online questionnaires regarding the frequency of …