| Improving sexual health with shared information, knowledge and responsibility | ||
| Patients | Professionals | Team |
| Needing support and being supportive | ||
| • What is the information about your sexual health that you are willing to share, and what are your expectations and what kind of support do you request? • What information do you want to/can you give the team and the professionals to enable them to give you the best possible support? • If you want your partner to be involved in communication about sexual health, give the partner the same opportunity as yourself to prepare for the meeting | • Recognize all individuals’ right to sexual and reproductive health and its importance for general well-being • Use professional knowledge to promote sexual health • Be up-to-date and use your professional competence concerning research and development in sexual health in your profession • Regularly follow-up the individual’s needs concerning sexual health and how the disease affects sexual health, using general information and questions | • Clarify the shared responsibility of the team members concerning promotion of sexual health in their professional roles • Be open to communication with patients about sexual health • Understand that sexual health is a broader concept than sexual function and reproduction • Ensure competence in sexual health and rheumatological disease within the team • Share up-to-date, correct and person-adapted information • Have knowledge about possibilities for further referral |