Development of an affirming and customizable electronic survey of sexual and reproductive health experiences for transgender and gender nonbinary people

Autor: Annesa Flentje, Bori Lesser-Lee, Lyndon Cudlitz, Ari Stoeffler, Mary Durden, Mitchell R. Lunn, Laura Ellwein Fix, Juno Obedin-Maliver, Laz Letcher, Eli Goldberg, Anna B. Katz, Jen Hastings, Matthew R. Capriotti, Heidi Moseson, Micah E. Lubensky, Aneidys Reyes
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Male
Gender diversity
Maternal Health
Social Sciences
Surveys
Abortion
Health Services Accessibility
Developmental psychology
Sexual and Gender Minorities
0302 clinical medicine
Pregnancy
Surveys and Questionnaires
Transgender
Medicine and Health Sciences
Psychology
030212 general & internal medicine
Termination of Pregnancy
Contraception Behavior
Qualitative Research
Language
Reproductive health
030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine
Multidisciplinary
Gender Identity
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Reproductive Health
Research Design
Vagina
Medicine
Female
Anatomy
Genital Anatomy
Research Article
Science
Sexism
Research and Analysis Methods
03 medical and health sciences
medicine
Humans
Internet
Survey Research
Gender identity
business.industry
Cognitive Psychology
Reproductive System
Biology and Life Sciences
medicine.disease
Sexual minority
Sexual orientation
Cognitive Science
Women's Health
Reproductive Health Services
business
Neuroscience
Zdroj: PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 5, p e0232154 (2020)
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0232154
Popis: To address pervasive measurement biases in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) research, our interdisciplinary team created an affirming, customizable electronic survey to measure experiences with contraceptive use, pregnancy, and abortion for transgender and gender nonbinary people assigned female or intersex at birth and cisgender sexual minority women. Between May 2018 and April 2019, we developed a questionnaire with 328 items across 10 domains including gender identity; language used for sexual and reproductive anatomy and events; gender affirmation process history; sexual orientation and sexual activity; contraceptive use and preferences; pregnancy history and desires; abortion history and preferences; priorities for sexual and reproductive health care; family building experiences; and sociodemographic characteristics. Recognizing that the words people use for their sexual and reproductive anatomy can vary, we programmed the survey to allow participants to input the words they use to describe their bodies, and then used those customized words to replace traditional medical terms throughout the survey. This process-oriented paper aims to describe the rationale for and collaborative development of an affirming, customizable survey of the SRH needs and experiences of sexual and gender minorities, and to present summary demographic characteristics of 3,110 people who completed the survey. We also present data on usage of customizable words, and offer the full text of the survey, as well as code for programming the survey and cleaning the data, for others to use directly or as guidelines for how to measure SRH outcomes with greater sensitivity to gender diversity and a range of sexual orientations.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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