A qualitive descriptive research article which aims to portray transgender patients’ journey through surgical gender reassignment and how their encounters with health care professionals affected their experience. The experiences are influenced by healthcare professionals’ attitudes, level of knowledge and clinical experiences of transgender issues. The method of a qualitive descriptive design, with open-ended interviews was chosen because qualitative research methods are particularly well suited to describe experiences, and the Institute of Medicine (2011) believe that qualitative methods can bring deeper comprehension to understand LGBT health.
The group of 4 authors are qualified registered nurses, 2 have PhD’s, one is a senior lecturer another …show more content…
Some trans people will hesitate to seek healthcare out of fear of being mistreated by healthcare professionals (Rachlin et al. 2008).
The healthcare professional’s attitudes and level of understanding and knowledge of transgender issues effect these experiences. The research article hopes to promote education of transgender minority issues and further LGBT content in healthcare professionals training.
The authors recruited two participants through personal connection and four participants were found through personal blogs the authors had searched for online. With stigmatised communities such as trans people, the strengths of using the Internet for sampling helps to quickly reach participants for little cost from different places and is almost anonymous making it possible to contact closeted people (Shapiro 2004, Miner et al. 2012). The sample size was small and this is a limitation but the trans community is small by total in Sweden, from 1960–2011, a total of 681 individuals were granted a new legal gender (Dhejne et al.
The group of 4 authors are qualified registered nurses, 2 have PhD’s, one is a senior lecturer another …show more content…
Some trans people will hesitate to seek healthcare out of fear of being mistreated by healthcare professionals (Rachlin et al. 2008).
The healthcare professional’s attitudes and level of understanding and knowledge of transgender issues effect these experiences. The research article hopes to promote education of transgender minority issues and further LGBT content in healthcare professionals training.
The authors recruited two participants through personal connection and four participants were found through personal blogs the authors had searched for online. With stigmatised communities such as trans people, the strengths of using the Internet for sampling helps to quickly reach participants for little cost from different places and is almost anonymous making it possible to contact closeted people (Shapiro 2004, Miner et al. 2012). The sample size was small and this is a limitation but the trans community is small by total in Sweden, from 1960–2011, a total of 681 individuals were granted a new legal gender (Dhejne et al.