{"id":7430,"date":"2025-06-28T18:16:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T18:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/knowledge-attitudes-and-practices-relating-to-fertility-among-nurses-working-in-primary-health-care\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T05:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T05:07:09","slug":"knowledge-attitudes-and-practices-relating-to-fertility-among-nurses-working-in-primary-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/knowledge-attitudes-and-practices-relating-to-fertility-among-nurses-working-in-primary-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge, attitudes and practices relating to fertility among nurses working in primary health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>Knowledge, attitudes and practices relating to fertility among nurses working in primary health care<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/www.ajan.com.au\/index.php\/AJAN\/article\/view\/1501' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/www.ajan.com.au\/index.php\/AJAN\/article\/download\/1501\/246' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>Objective: To explore knowledge, attitudes and practice relating to factors that affect fertility among nurses working in general practice and other primary health care settings.<br \/>\nDesign: Anonymous online survey.<br \/>\nSetting: Primary care.<br \/>\nSubjects: Members of the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA). Main outcome measures: Fertility related knowledge, attitudes and practice.<br \/>\nResults: 102 individuals completed the survey. More than half overestimated the age when male and female fertility declines and the chance of women conceiving with IVF. Most knew that smoking affects a man\u2019s sperm but only one quarter that smoking halves a woman\u2019s fertility. The majority recognised obesity and STI\u2019s as detrimental for fertility and agreed that educating patients about fertility is part of primary health care nurses\u2019 role to ask people of reproductive age about their reproductive life plan and alert them to the factors that influence fertility. The most commonly cited barrier for discussing fertility with patients was perceived lack of knowledge about the subject.<br \/>\nConclusion: This study identified opportunities and barriers for nurses working in primary health care to proactively discuss fertility and the factors that influence the chance of conceiving with their patients. Appropriate educational resources to improve knowledge and support from general practitioners (GPs) can enable nurses working in general practice and other primary health care settings to provide effective fertility related education as part of their role as health promoters.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Karin Hammarberg<\/li>\n<li>Lisa Collison<\/li>\n<li>Hau Nguyen<\/li>\n<li>Jane Fisher<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>practice nurses, primary health care, health promotion, fertility, reproductive health<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: Knowledge, attitudes and practices relating to fertility among nurses working in primary health care&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[4469,4264,4468,2458,2548],"class_list":["post-7430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-fertility","tag-health-promotion","tag-practice-nurses","tag-primary-health-care","tag-reproductive-health","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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