Using mobile technology to engage sexual and gender minorities in clinical research.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Historical and current stigmatizing and discriminatory experiences drive sexual and gender minority (SGM) people away from health care and clinical research. Being medically underserved, they face numerous disparities that make them vulnerable to poor health outcomes. Effective methods to engage and recruit SGM people into clinical research studies are needed.

Objectives

To promote health equity and understand SGM health needs, we sought to design an online, national, longitudinal cohort study entitled The PRIDE (Population Research in Identity and Disparities for Equality) Study that enabled SGM people to safely participate, provide demographic and health data, and generate SGM health-related research ideas.

Methods

We developed an iPhone mobile applicat

SUBMITTER: Lunn MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6497300 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature