Assessing Comfort of Physicians to Provide Transgender-Specific Care.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Transgender individuals disproportionately face barriers to accessing and receiving health care. This study examines physician comfort in managing and caring for the unique health needs and barriers that transgender patients encounter. We predicted that increased exposure to a transgender person, prior treatment of a transgender patient, and transgender health education would increase comfort in providing care to transgender individuals.

Methods

A Qualtrics^® survey link was sent through mail to actively licensed physicians within the state of Nevada. Questions related to perceived comfort level were measured on a 10-point scale (1=lowest level of comfort, 10=highest level of comfort) and dichotomized for analysis (1-5=not comfortable, 6-10=comfortable).

SUBMITTER: Kent D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9829139 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature