Obstetrics and Gynecology Residents and Experts' Knowledge of, Attitudes Toward, Practice Behaviors, and Self-confidence Levels of Caring for Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (LBT+) Patients in Turkey; A Descriptive-cross Sectional Study

Kanuni Sultan Suleyman Training and Research Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Treatments: Behavioral: Obstetrics and Gynecology residents and experts'

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05699434

Arnavutkoy EAH

Details and patient eligibility

About

Obstetrics and Gynecology residents and experts' knowledge of, attitudes toward, practice behaviors, and self-confidence levels of caring for lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LBT+) patients in Turkey; A descriptive-cross sectional study

Full description

There are various studies about LGBT people's problems while utilizing healthcare services and interactions with physicians in Turkey and other countries. There is a lack in the curriculum for obstetricians and gynecologists regarding LGBT individuals' healthcare problems. In this study, we tried to evaluate obstetrics and gynecology residents/experts' knowledge level about LGBT individuals, attitudes toward these sexual minority individuals in their clinical practices, practice behaviors and experience levels about this condition, and their confidence level about caring for sexual minority individuals by performing cross-sectional study using online survey platform.

Enrollment: 189 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• work actively as an Obstetrician and Gynecologist in Istanbul/Turkey

Exclusion criteria

• retired clinicians
• LGBT individuals working as Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Trial design

189 participants in 1 patient group

Obstetrics and Gynecology residenst and experts

Description:

Obstetrics and Gynecology residents and expert knowledge of, attitudes toward, practice behaviors, and self-confidence levels of caring for lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LBT+) patients in Turkey ( Istanbul)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Obstetrics and Gynecology residents and experts'