Leveraging community engagement and human-centered design to develop multilevel implementation strategies to enhance adoption of a health equity intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health equity intervention implementation (which promotes positive health outcomes for populations experiencing disproportionately worse health) is often impeded by health-equity-specific barriers like provider bias; few studies demonstrate how to overcome these barriers through implementation strategies. An urgent health equity problem in the U.S. is the mental health of transgender youth. To address this, we developed Gender-Affirming Psychotherapy (GAP), a health equity intervention comprising best-practice mental health care for transgender youth. This paper details the identification of implementation determinants and the development of targeted strategies to promote provider adoption of GAP.

Methods

This study represents part of a larger study of mental heal

SUBMITTER: Price MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12641884 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature