Confirmatory validation of the transgender health care humanization scale.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the critical importance of humanized healthcare for transgender individuals, no existing measures specifically assess care humanization for this population. The Transgender Health Care Humanization Scale (THcH Scale) was developed to address this gap, yet it initially lacked confirmatory validation. This study validates the Transgender THcH scale for evaluating healthcare providers' sensitivity towards transgender patients.

Methods

This study involved 443 healthcare professionals and students from a public university and associated hospital. Participants were divided randomly into two groups for Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). Using the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling Adequacy and Bartlett's Test of Spherici

SUBMITTER: Lins-Kusterer L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11658295 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature