Interdisciplinary clinicians' attitudes, challenges, and success strategies in providing care to transgender people: a qualitative descriptive study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Access to clinicians competent in transgender health remains a significant barrier and contributor toward health inequity for transgender people. Studies on access and barriers to care have predominantly evaluated transgender patients' perceptions, but scant research has included the perspectives of clinicians.

Aims

We conducted a qualitative study to explore how clinicians (meaning physicians and advanced practice providers, in this paper) in the United States: (1) attain and utilize information, (2) perceive barriers and facilitators, and (3) understood gaps in their professional training, in regard to practicing transgender health care.

Methods

A Qualitative Descriptive approach guided our conventional content analysis of field notes and interviews with

SUBMITTER: Soled KRS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9454229 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature