Advance Care Planning Experiences Among Sexual and Gender Minority People.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Advance care planning (ACP) can promote patient-centered end-of-life (EOL) care and is intended to ensure that medical treatments are aligned with patient's values. Sexual and gender minority (SGM) people face greater discrimination in health care settings compared with heterosexual, cisgender people, but it is unknown whether such discrimination occurs in ACP and how it might affect the ACP experiences of SGM people.

Objectives

To increase understanding of barriers and facilitators of ACP facing SGM individuals.

Design, setting, and participants

This mixed-methods national study of ACP included a telephone survey of self-identified SGM and non-SGM participants in a nationally representative sample drawn from a larger omnibus national panel by SSRS. Qualita

SUBMITTER: Reich AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9301514 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature