Purpose: It is to clarify what the factors about trust of male and female patients on the care by male nurses.
Method: The questionnaire was conducted anonymously from July to August in 2012 against male and female inpatients in good physical condition in the ward which male nurses are assigned.
Result and discussion: Recovery rate was 75.5%. The date of 67 male inpatients and 38 female inpatients were analyzed. There were shown that on male and female patients alike the degree of trust against care of female nurses was higher than against care of male nurses, and the tolerance of female patient against care of male nurses was more difficult than care of female nurses, however on the female patients which were cared by male nurses, the degree of trust against male nurses was higher than were not cared. These results suggested that the patient’s results were obtained that the patient’s trusts against male nurses were influenced by the experience of care by male nurses
rather than sex difference.
Consideration: The patient’s trusts concluded that the patient’s trusts against male nurses should be built by the considered care.