Transgender People's Experiences Sharing Information With Clinicians : A Focus Group-Based Qualitative Study
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PURPOSE: Investigating transgender people's experiences sharing health information in clinical encounters may yield insights for family medicine clinicians.
METHODS: This was a qualitative study using a community-based participatory research approach and interpretive description methodology. Seven qualitative focus groups were conducted with 30 transgender adults living in North America. We used purposive sampling to ensure diversity. The focus groups were transcribed verbatim, and 2 investigators independently reviewed and coded each transcript, then they mutually reviewed the transcripts, reconciled their coding, and summarized the codes into themes. Themes were reviewed with community members, participants, and uninvolved clinically oriented investigators for member checking and peer debriefing.
RESULTS: Four themes were noted: (1) transgender people often perceive clinicians' questions as voyeuristic, stigmatizing, or self-protective; (2) patients describe being pathologized, denied or given substandard care, or harmed when clinicians learned they are transgender; (3) transgender people frequently choose between risking stigma when sharing information and risking ineffective clinical problem solving if clinicians do not have all the information about their medical histories; (4) improving the safety of transgender people is difficult in the context of contemporary medical systems.
CONCLUSIONS: Transgender people often must choose between stigma and potentially suboptimal care. Improvements in medical culture, policies, procedures, and data collection tools are necessary to improve the quality and safety of clinical care for transgender people. Institutional and systems changes may be required to safely and effectively implement sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data collection in clinical settings.
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2023 |
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2023 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:21 |
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Annals of family medicine - 21(2023), 5 vom: 17. Sept., Seite 408-415 |
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Englisch |
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| Beteiligte Personen: |
Alpert, Ash B [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 02.11.2023 Date Revised 02.11.2023 published: Print Citation Status MEDLINE |
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10.1370/afm.3010 |
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| 520 | |a PURPOSE: Investigating transgender people's experiences sharing health information in clinical encounters may yield insights for family medicine clinicians | ||
| 520 | |a METHODS: This was a qualitative study using a community-based participatory research approach and interpretive description methodology. Seven qualitative focus groups were conducted with 30 transgender adults living in North America. We used purposive sampling to ensure diversity. The focus groups were transcribed verbatim, and 2 investigators independently reviewed and coded each transcript, then they mutually reviewed the transcripts, reconciled their coding, and summarized the codes into themes. Themes were reviewed with community members, participants, and uninvolved clinically oriented investigators for member checking and peer debriefing | ||
| 520 | |a RESULTS: Four themes were noted: (1) transgender people often perceive clinicians' questions as voyeuristic, stigmatizing, or self-protective; (2) patients describe being pathologized, denied or given substandard care, or harmed when clinicians learned they are transgender; (3) transgender people frequently choose between risking stigma when sharing information and risking ineffective clinical problem solving if clinicians do not have all the information about their medical histories; (4) improving the safety of transgender people is difficult in the context of contemporary medical systems | ||
| 520 | |a CONCLUSIONS: Transgender people often must choose between stigma and potentially suboptimal care. Improvements in medical culture, policies, procedures, and data collection tools are necessary to improve the quality and safety of clinical care for transgender people. Institutional and systems changes may be required to safely and effectively implement sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data collection in clinical settings | ||
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