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Discrimination and resilience and the needs of people who identify as transgender: a narrative review of quantitative research studies.
  Aims and objectives: to examine discrimination and resilience experiences of people who identify as transgender and establish potential health service responses.
Background: people who identify as transgender face many challenges in society in terms of the knowledge, understanding and acceptance of a person’s gender identity.
Design: a narrative review of quantitative empirical research
Methods: a comprehensive search of CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycINFO and Sociological Abstracts electronic databases from 2006 to 2016 was conducted.
Results: the search yielded 1478 papers and following the application of rigorous inclusion and exclusion criteria a total of 19 papers were included in the review. The findings reveal that there is a need to ensure that the needs of transgender people are represented, fully integrated, and clearly linked to outcomes that improve their health and quality of life.
Conclusions: discrimination experiences can result in poorer health outcomes, however many people have developed resilience and positive coping strategies

  • Type:

    Article

  • Date:

    09 June 2017

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • DOI:

    10.1111/jocn.13913

  • ISSN:

    0962-1067

  • Library of Congress:

    HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    362 Social welfare problems & services

  • Funders:

    Edinburgh Napier Funded

Citation

McCann, E., & Brown, M. (2017). Discrimination and resilience and the needs of people who identify as transgender: a narrative review of quantitative research studies. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 26(23-24), 4080-4093. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.13913

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Keywords

Transgender, Health Services, Mental Health, LGBT, Human Rights, Quantitative Methods,

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