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Future Healthcare Professionals’ Attitudes About The Sexuality Of Women With Intellectual Disabilities, Noel N. Tolvanen
Future Healthcare Professionals’ Attitudes About The Sexuality Of Women With Intellectual Disabilities, Noel N. Tolvanen
Honors Thesis
Women with intellectual disabilities (WID) experience a number of systemic barriers to healthcare related to their sexuality and sexual expression. Additionally, they are vulnerable to sexual abuse which could lead to conditions that would adversely affect their health and wellbeing. There is a need for healthcare professionals to be able to provide comprehensive sexual healthcare to WID, and this service is currently lacking. To begin to address this gap in available care, content on the sexuality of WID in courses taken by undergraduate future healthcare providers (FHP) needs to be developed. To provide the foundation of such a curriculum, this …