变性人和非二进制人的子宫内膜异位症经验
Cheryl Eder1, Rizwana Roomaney1
1Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Journal of health psychology
|August 11, 2024
概括
患有子宫内膜异位症的不同性别的个体经历了深刻的脱节,称为"不适合家庭". 这项研究强调了独特的挑战,并倡导包容性护理和提高对跨性别和非二进制子宫内膜异位症患者的认识.
科学领域:
- 医学社会学 医学社会学
- 现象学的现象学
- 性别研究是性别研究.
背景情况:
- 关于子宫内膜异位症患有性别多样性个体的生活经历的研究有限.
- 子宫内膜异位症不成比例地影响 cisgender 女性,经常忽视跨性别和非二进制人口的经历.
- 了解这些经验对于开发包容性医疗保健实践至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 探索患有子宫内膜异位症的跨性别和非二进制个体的生活经历.
- 确定与子宫内膜异位症和性别认同相关的断开和连接的主题.
- 为医疗保健提供者提供信息,并倡导改善支持系统.
主要方法:
- 现象学方法利用解释学分析.
- 数据是通过多次深入采访和11名参与者的个人日记收集的.
- 分析的重点是构建生活经验的主题.
主要成果:
- 确定了两个核心主题:"与子宫内膜异位症生活的不相似性和性别多样性"和"作为性别多样个体与子宫内膜异位症生活的不相似性".
- 无家可归性包括由于慢性疾病和性别相关因素而与自己的身体和世界断开联系.
- 额外的挑战包括诊断延迟,症状诱导的性别障碍症和非包容性治疗.
结论:
- 患有子宫内膜异位症的性别多样性个体面临着独特的"不适合家庭"由于交叉的健康和身份挑战.
- 迫切需要提高对这一群体的认识,并为其提供量身定制的支持.
- 医疗保健系统必须变得更加包容,以满足不同性别的子宫内膜异位症患者的特殊需求.
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