Action research in the care of patients with sexual anxieties Collaborative working in the Balint model of psychosexual seminar training can be used as a rigorous approach to ongoing action research. In this article, the author describes how nurses can develop awareness using this approach to patients' sexual problems. March 19 1998. These key words are based upon work undertaken by the RCN Library. The stress of illness makes patients vulnerable and often only nurses witness this.
Nurses have a strong desire to provide effective individualised care.
However, there is often failure to do this because time is not allowed in order to value the clinical evidence for care. This is especially true for patients' sexual anxieties because nurses may be faced with them daily in the course of clinical practice. This neglected area of care can be examined in the 'psychosexual seminar'. Through collaborative groupwork using the Balint model of psychosexual seminar training, important nursing skills can be developed. Training groups have been running throughout the UK since this time.