Qualitative inquiry into barriers and facilitators to transforming primary care for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in US federally qualified health centres.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Health systems must rapidly move knowledge into practice to address disparities impacting sexual and gender minority (SGM) patients. This qualitative study explores barriers and facilitators that arose during an initiative to improve care for SGM patients in federally qualified health centres (FQHCs) from the perspectives of FQHC staff.

Design

Cross-sectional qualitative content analysis, using a general inductive approach, of secondary data from transcripts of intervention events offered to FQHC staff and semistructured interviews with staff and FQHC leadership during the intervention.

Setting

10 FQHCs from nine states in the USA.

Participants

FQHC quality improvement (QI) and clinical care staff, and leaders at each FQHC.

Interventions

The t

SUBMITTER: Gagnon KW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8860040 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature