ArticlePsychological services2021
Improving affirming care for sexual and gender minority veterans.
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- Health-Related Social Needs Among LGB+ Veterans.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Ethnoracial inequities in social stressors and patterns of alcohol use in a population of United States transgender Veterans.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- An Examination of Facilitators and Barriers to Care Receipt Among Specific Groups of LGBTQ+ and Cisgender Heterosexual Veterans.Psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity · 2025Article
- Experiences of Discrimination Among Women and Gender Diverse Veterans Using Veterans Health Administration Health Care.Health equity · 2024Article
- Spreading pride in all who served: A health education program to improve access and mental health outcomes for sexual and gender minority veterans.Psychological services · 2023Article
- Rolling out PRIDE in All Who Served: Barriers and Facilitators for Sites Implementing an LGBTQ+ Health Education Group for Military Veterans.Journal of general internal medicine · 2023Article
- Primary sources of health care among LGBTQ+ veterans: Findings from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.Health services research · 2023Article
- Implementation of LGBTQ+ affirming care policies in the Veterans Health Administration: preliminary findings on barriers and facilitators in the southern United States.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- What motivates community mental and behavioral health organizations to participate in LGBTQ+ cultural competency trainings?The American journal of orthopsychiatry · 2022Article
- Sexual Identity Differences in Access to and Satisfaction With Health Care: Findings From Nationally Representative Data.American journal of epidemiology · 2021Article
- Variation in Sexual Orientation Documentation in a National Electronic Health Record System.LGBT health · 2021Article
- The Role of Implementation Science in Reducing Sexual and Gender Minority Mental Health Disparities.LGBT health · 2021Article
- Toward Optimizing Mental Health Care for Sexual and Gender Minority Veterans.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2020Article
- "Give me the sense that I matter:" Queer women's recommendations for an ideal cervical cancer screening exam and pathways to screening equity.Women's health (London, England)Article
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Abstract
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations face a range of health disparities that all health care systems must address. In response to known health disparities, the LGBT Health Program of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) developed policies supporting the provision of affirming care to LGBT veterans. To support policy implementation, the program launched the LGBT Veteran Care Coordinator (LGBT VCC) Program in 2016, requiring every VHA facility to appoint at least one clinical staff member to serve as an LGBT VCC. This quality improvement project reports on LGBT VCCs' perspectives on the state of affirming care at their facilities in the first year of the program. LGBT VCCs (n = 79) completed a brief online survey, including qualitative questions on barriers and facilitators to implementation, and general recommendations for the program. The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) guided directed content analysis of reported facilitators and barriers. The highest proportion of facilitators and barriers reported by the LGBT VCCs were coded under leadership engagement, available resources, other personal attributes, organizational culture, and networking and communications. LGBT VCCs requested additional support in securing adequate designated administrative time, engaging with facility leadership, improving networking and communication, tailoring programing, and providing professional advancement opportunities. Organizing findings using the CFIR enabled the LGBT Health Program to effectively promote facilitators and address barriers experienced during the startup year of the LGBT VCC Program. The VHA's efforts to reduce LGBT veteran health disparities may serve as a model for other health care systems. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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