Unmet Needs of Pediatricians in Transgender-Specific Care: Results of a Short-Term Training
Authors' conclusion
These findings indicate the importance of training pediatricians to work with gender-diverse youth and provide them with the best clinical interventions.
Study context
- Population
- Italian family pediatricians (48 men, 48 women) attending a 6-h training program on sexual identity and gender-diverse youth
- Participants
- 96 participants
- Comparison
- Pre-training vs post-training vs follow-up
- Outcome
- Knowledge about sexual identity, genderism and heteronormativity
- Follow-up
- Pre-training, post-training and
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Mean knowledge score about sexual identity, pre-training
- 7.13 ± 3.21
- Change in knowledge about sexual identity (one-way within-subject ANOVA)
- F = 39.75, p < 0.001
- Change in personal biases related to genderism
- F = 7.46, p < 0.01
- Change in heteronormative attitudes
- F = 44.99, p < 0.001
- Change in heteronormative behaviors
- F = 79.29, p < 0.001
Original publication
Unmet Needs of Pediatricians in Transgender-Specific Care: Results of a Short-Term Training. Horm Res Paediatr. Published 26 September 2023. doi:10.
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