Primary Care for Transgender Adolescents and Young Adults in Rhode Island: An Analysis of the all Payers Claims Database.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Structural stigma has shaped disparities across several domains of health for transgender relative to cisgender (nontransgender) adolescents in the United States. Research on transgender health has largely overlooked the role of preventive care, especially for adolescents.

Methods

We used ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes to identify transgender adolescents in the Rhode Island All Payers Claims Database (APCD) from 2011 to 2017 based on a diagnosis for gender identity disorder (GID). We evaluated differences in the use of preventive care services between transgender and cisgender adolescents. We compared the frequency of sexually transmitted infection and HIV screening and the percentage prescribed pre-exposure prophylaxis among transgender and cisgender adolescents using t-tes

SUBMITTER: Nocka K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7902446 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature