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Investigating LGBTQ affirmative attitudes and needs for better practice among Hungarian healthcare professionals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2024

G. Vizin*
Affiliation:
University Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

Abstract

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Abstract

Introduction: LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) people often do not seek health care and do not identify as LGBTQ people because of fear of judgment, stereotyping, and discrimination by health professionals. All of this is a particularly worrying phenomenon, because various mental difficulties, risky behaviors, and certain types of somatic and psychosomatic diseases may appear in a higher proportion among them.

Objectives

Attitudes related to LGBTQ people were examined in several areas in Hungary. Most of our data comes from psychologists, however, a comprehensive examination of health professionals’ attitudes towards LGBTQ people has not yet been carried out.

Methods

In a cross-sectional online survey, we ask healthcare professionals (medical doctors, nurses, other graduate healthcare professionals and medical university students) to fill out our questionnaire. The participants complete the Modern Homonegativity Scale and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Clinical Skills Development Scale.

Results

We assume that the majority of Hungarian healthcare professionals have a neutral or positive attitude towards LGBTQ people, but they struggle with a significant lack of affirmative skills. We will present our results in detail in the presentation of the symposium.

Conclusions

There is an urgent need to provide the appropriate affirmative knowledge material to Hungarian healthcare workers.

Disclosure of Interest

None Declared

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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of European Psychiatric Association
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