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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nurs Outlook. 2023 Mar 14;71(3):101950. doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2023.101950

Table 3.

Findings of Importance from included reports

Concept Aaberg (2016) Cornelius, Enwaana, Alston, & Baldwin (2017) Sirota (2013) Walsh & Hendrickson (2015)
Perceived preparedness for teaching SGM-related Content Not Reported Not Reported 56.6% faculty reported feeling not at all prepared to teach homosexuality-related content Not Reported
Appropriateness/Importance of LGBT content for Nursing Curriculum. 32 (86.5%) agree that LGBT Sexual Health is appropriate for nursing curriculum Not Reported 78.6% of faculty rated teaching nursing students about sexual minorities as very important to extremely important Not Reported
Time spent on LGBT/SGM content 0.59 hrs average spent on LGBT sexual health

29 of 39 (74%) reported <1 hr of LGBT sexual health content

11 (28%), reported 0 hrs of LGBT sexual health content
32 of 41 (78%) reported <5 hrs of LGBT content.

7 of 41 (17%) reported 6 to 10 hrs of LGBT content

1 (2%) reported 11 to 15 hrs of LGBT content
Not Reported 1.63 hrs average LGBT content

4 of 15 (26%) reported 0 hrs of LGBT content

0 schools report >4 hrs LGBT content
Courses where SGM-related content is taught Maternal-Newborn 18.5%

Medical-Surgical Nursing 46.1%

Health Promotion 15.4%

Other courses 37%
Fundamentals of Nursing 37%

Health Assessment 32%

Health Diversity 27%

Medical-Surgical Nursing 24%

Psychiatric Nursing 22%

Maternal-Child Nursing 17%

LGBT Health 2%
Not Reported Not Reported
Additional Findings 16% of faculty indicated that graduates of their program are prepared to address sexuality issues with clients. 85% of respondents reported that their schools did not have any policies regarding students caring for LGBT patients. ATLG scores indicated mostly positive attitudes towards homosexuality (M =47.2, SD=27.7). 22% indicated much more negative views (ATLG > 99) >47.6% of schools address ‘transgender or transsexual [sic] individuals’ and 57% report teaching gender identity concepts