Applied patient-level palliative care interventions designed to meet the needs of sexual and gender minorities: A scoping review and qualitative content analysis of how to support sexual and gender minorities at end of life.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sexual and gender minorities experience considerable health disparities across the life span. End of life presents unique challenges for this population, further exacerbating existing disparities.

Aim

We aimed to identify applied patient-level palliative care interventions for sexual and gender minorities and describe how said interventions met the needs of these populations at end of life.

Design

We conducted a scoping review in keeping with the updated Arksey and O'Malley Framework. All included reports were analyzed qualitatively to describe the intervention and summarize thematically how it met the needs of sexual and gender minorities at end of life.

Data sources

We conducted searches in MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsychInfo, and CINAHL from 1946 to June 1

SUBMITTER: Robinson L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10798012 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature