Transgender people's reasons for primary care visits: a cross-sectional study in France.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our main objective was to describe transgender people's reasons for consulting a general practitioner (GP) outside of transition-related issues; the secondary objective was to study the qualitative aspects of the primary care visits for this population.

Design

Descriptive, cross-sectional study in France.

Setting

The study questionnaire was distributed online and to healthcare centres in France.

Participants

Self-identified transgender people aged 18 and older.

Primary and secondary outcomes

Reasons for consulting were collected retrospectively and classified according to the International Classification of Primary Care, second edition (ICPC-2). The answers to the open-ended questions were analysed qualitatively by theme and occurrences.

Re

SUBMITTER: Garnier M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8231050 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature