Providing gender affirming and inclusive care to transgender men experiencing pregnancy.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives and design

Information about providing professional and appropriate perinatal care to transgender men in the perinatal setting is scarce, and healthcare providers often have insufficient knowledge or skills to provide this care. In response, a quality improvement educational program for nursing staff was developed and implemented, with the goal of evaluating the impact of this intervention on nurses' knowledge, skills, and attitudes when caring for pregnant transgender men.

Setting and participants

The training was offered to nursing staff of a 24-bed inpatient perinatal unit at a large, private academic medical center in a major East Coast city during the unit's quarterly staff meeting in March 2020.

Intervention

The training covered the provision of affir

SUBMITTER: Chu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9850418 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature