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Improving correctional healthcare providers' ability to care for transgender patients: Development and evaluation of a theory-driven cultural and clinical competence intervention.


ABSTRACT: RATIONALE:Correctional healthcare providers' limited cultural and clinical competence to care for transgender patients represents a barrier to care for incarcerated transgender individuals. OBJECTIVE:The present study aimed to adapt, deliver, and evaluate a transgender cultural and clinical competence intervention for correctional healthcare providers. METHOD:In the summer of 2016, a theoretically-informed, group-based intervention to improve transgender cultural and clinical competence was delivered to 34 correctional healthcare providers in New England. A confidential survey assessed providers' cultural and clinical competence to care for transgender patients, self-efficacy to provide hormone therapy, subjective norms related to transgender care, and willingness to provide gender-affirming care to transgender patients before and after (immediately and 3-months) the intervention. Linear mixed effects regression models were fit to assess change in study outcomes over time. Qualitative exit interviews assessed feasibility and acceptability of the intervention. RESULTS:Providers' willingness to provide gender-affirming care improved immediately post-intervention (? = 0.38; SE = 0.41, p < 0.001) and from baseline to 3-months post-intervention (? = 0.36; SE = 0.09; p < 0.001; omnibus test of fixed effects ?2 = 23.21; p < 0.001). On average, transgender cultural competence (?2 = 22.49; p < 0.001), medical gender affirmation knowledge (?2 = 11.24; p = 0.01), self-efficacy to initiate hormones for transgender women, and subjective norms related to transgender care (?2 = 14.69; p = 0.001) all significantly increased over time. Providers found the intervention to be highly acceptable and recommended that the training be scaled-up to other correctional healthcare providers and expanded to custody staff. CONCLUSION:The intervention increased correctional healthcare providers' cultural and clinical competence, self-efficacy, subjective norms, and willingness to provide gender-affirming care to transgender patients. Continued efforts should be made to train correctional healthcare providers in culturally and clinically competent gender-affirming care in order to improve the health of incarcerated transgender people. Future efficacy testing of this intervention is warranted.

SUBMITTER: White Hughto JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5712271 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Improving correctional healthcare providers' ability to care for transgender patients: Development and evaluation of a theory-driven cultural and clinical competence intervention.

White Hughto Jaclyn M JM   Clark Kirsty A KA   Altice Frederick L FL   Reisner Sari L SL   Kershaw Trace S TS   Pachankis John E JE  

Social science & medicine (1982) 20171030


<h4>Rationale</h4>Correctional healthcare providers' limited cultural and clinical competence to care for transgender patients represents a barrier to care for incarcerated transgender individuals.<h4>Objective</h4>The present study aimed to adapt, deliver, and evaluate a transgender cultural and clinical competence intervention for correctional healthcare providers.<h4>Method</h4>In the summer of 2016, a theoretically-informed, group-based intervention to improve transgender cultural and clinic  ...[more]

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