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A Systematic Review of UK Educational and Training Materials Aimed at Health and Social Care Staff about Providing Appropriate Services for LGBT+ People

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posted on 2023-07-26, 14:50 authored by Ros Hunt, Christopher Bates, Susan H. Walker, Jeffrey Grierson, Sarah A. Redsell, Catherine Meads
Background: There is greater dissatisfaction with health services by LGBT people compared to heterosexual and cisgender people and some of this is from lack of equality and diversity training for health professionals. Core training standards in sexual orientation for health professionals have been available since 2006. The purpose of this project is to systematically review educational materials for health and social care professionals in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues. Methods: A protocol was developed and searches conducted in six databases. Selection criteria: any studies reporting delivery or evaluation of UK education of health and/or social care professionals in LGBT issues, with no language or setting restrictions. Inclusions and data extraction were conducted in duplicate. Narrative synthesis of educational evaluations was used. Educational materials were assessed using thematic synthesis. Results: From the searches, 165 full papers were evaluated and 19 studies were included in the narrative synthesis. Three were successful action-research projects in cancer services and in residential care. Sixteen sets of educational/training materials have been available since 2010. These varied in length, scope, target audience, and extent of development as classroom-ready materials. Conclusions: Despite the availability of appropriate training programmes for post-qualifying staff, recommendations to undertake training, best practice examples, and statements of good intent, LGBT people continue to report that they are experiencing discrimination or direct prejudice from health and/or social care services. Better training strategies using behaviour change techniques are needed.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

16

Issue number

24

Page range

4976

Publication title

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

ISSN

1660-4601

Publisher

MDPI

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  • Published version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2019-12-09

Legacy creation date

2019-12-09

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine & Social Care

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