Development and Assessment of a Patient-Reported Outcome Instrument for Gender-Affirming Care.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

There is an urgent need for a validated gender-affirming care-specific patient-reported outcome measure (PROM).

Objective

To field test the GENDER-Q, a new PROM for gender-affirming care, in a large, international sample of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) adults and evaluate its psychometric properties.

Design, setting, and participants

This international cross-sectional study was conducted among TGD adults aged 18 years and older who were seeking or had received gender-affirming care within the past 5 years at 21 clinical sites across Canada, the United States, the Netherlands, and Spain; participants were also recruited through community groups (eg, crowdsourcing platform, social media). The study was conducted between February 2022 and March 2024. P

SUBMITTER: Kaur MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12008761 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature