Social-ecological barriers and facilitators to seeking inpatient psychiatric care among transgender and nonbinary people: A qualitative descriptive study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim(s)

To assess barriers and facilitators to seeking inpatient psychiatric treatment among transgender and nonbinary people.

Design

Qualitative interview study.

Methods

Semi-structured interviews were conducted from March 2019 to June 2022 with transgender and nonbinary people admitted to an inpatient psychiatric hospital in the United States during the past 5 years. Data were analysed using thematic analysis and constructed within a modified social-ecological model of stigma. Standards for Reporting Qualitative Research were used for this study.

Results

Participants (N = 15) described barriers and facilitators across all three social-ecological levels. i) Individual themes included distrust of the mental healthcare system, feeling unsafe, loss of autonomy, mi

SUBMITTER: Boutilier AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11868451 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature