Community involvement and engagement in designing a social-media based educational intervention for oral and sexual health promotion in transgender women in Malaysia: a narrative summary.

ABSTRACT: Patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) in health care research has been advocated to ensure that the research is relevant, acceptable and beneficial to the communities that it serves. However, there remains a significant gap in research projects incorporating PPIE among the transgender communities, particularly from the global South. In this narrative summary the authors describe the methodology of PPIE through a novel collaboration with community members for the design and development of a bilingual and culturally sensitive educational intervention that was tailor made for transgender women in Malaysia. The educational intervention named Ms Radiance was aimed at creating oral health awareness, improving oral health care utilization and promoting safe oral sex practices among

SUBMITTER: Telang LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11951667 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature