2021 MSUFCU Honorable Mention Award for the Lyman Briggs Research Showcase
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Differentiating the Effects of Exposure versus Medical Education on Transphobia Among a Sample of Emergency Room Practitioners Ishaan Modi, 2nd year |
Abstract
Transgender individuals are a marginalized population in the United States, facing systemic discrimination from housing to employment to education. However, an area of discrimination that is equally as omnipresent is in healthcare. Transgender individuals may often face microaggressions or explicit discrimination from providers or staff; when this occurs in the emergency room, this transphobia (prejudice against transgender people) could be deadly.
For this reason, this project will be focusing on transphobia of emergency room clinicians. This project is a secondary analysis of a study by a team of researchers from Henry Ford Health System and MSU, in which 81 emergency room clinicians completed a survey on caring for transgender patients. This survey touched upon a variety of variables from race/ethnicity, gender identity, comfort for and knowledge on caring for transgender patients, and transphobia (among multiple others). This project aims to narrow the focus further the parent study, by examining whether clinical exposure to transgender patients and level of informal and formal education around transgender health are associated with transphobia. Descriptive and bivariate analyses will be conducted to answer the research question. The implications of this could suggest more efficacious ways to train healthcare professionals to combat transphobia in their healthcare settings, yielding in more culturally competent care.
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