Assessment of nurses' competence to care for sexually assaulted trans persons: a survey of Ontario's Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Treatment Centres.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Our primary objective was to examine the perceived level of competence and need for additional training among nurses engaged in the care of sexually assaulted trans persons. Among these nurses, a secondary objective was to examine the impact of prior trans-specific training on their perceived level of competence.

Setting

An online survey was distributed to nurses working within 35 hospital-based violence treatment centres in Ontario, Canada.

Respondents

95 nurses completed the survey.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The perceived level of competence and need for additional training overall and on 31 specific items associated with initial assessment, medical care, forensic examination and discharge and referral, as well as sociodemographic, work

SUBMITTER: Du Mont J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6538203 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature