Abstract
BackgroundGlobally, miniscule improvements have been implemented regarding equality, inclusion, access, and protection of people with diverse gender identities whilst accessing health care facilities of which transgender youth form part. Literature has highlighted that the care transgender youth receive at health care facilities can result in positive or negative outcomes. School-going transgender youth constitute a unique group whose experiences at health care facilities warrant ongoing research. Hence, the objective of this scoping review is to systematically map evidence of school-going transgender youths’ experiences at health care facilities regarding service delivery, support, and policies and to identify literature gaps that could inform future research.MethodsWe will conduct a scoping review, using peer-reviewed journal articles that present literature on school-going transgender youths’ experiences at health care facilities. Searches for relevant articles will be conducted on the following databases: PubMed, Cochrane Library, Campbell collaboration, Scopus, Embase, and MEDLINE. Additional searches will be conducted on institutional websites or web-based search portals. Two reviewers will independently extract data from all relevant search engines incorporating the study objective, research questions, and eligibility criteria. The inclusion criteria include published full-text qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method studies that address the topic with no language and publication year limitations to reflect a comprehensive range of literature that includes the implementation of the SDGs. All literature that does not meet the inclusion criteria will be excluded. The quality of included studies will be appraised using the mixed methods appraisal tool (MMAT) – version 2018.DiscussionWe anticipate mapping the experiences of school-going transgender youth at health care facilities. Once summarized, the data could be useful to clinical educators, health workers, policy makers, and guide future research to ensure that the human and patients’ rights of transgender youth, are globally acknowledged, protected, and respected within health care facilities.
Highlights
Miniscule improvements have been implemented regarding equality, inclusion, access, and protection of people with diverse gender identities whilst accessing health care facilities of which transgender youth form part
School-going transgender youth refers to individuals attending educational institutions whilst transitioning between childhood and adulthood with their gender identity or expression not matching the sex, they were assigned at birth nor conforming to cisgender norms [4,5,6,7,8]
Experience nonacceptance and misunderstanding from members of various societies including the medical fraternity while they navigate the complexities and challenges of transitioning between childhood and adulthood [9, 10]
Summary
To effectively map a broad range of information on school-going transgender youths’ experiences at health care facilities, a scoping review was selected This knowledge synthesis method will employ a phenomenological stance to systematically and rigorously map published literature and identify information gaps on the topic from qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods studies [34]. Studies written in all languages with no publication date restriction will be selected to reflect older and current practices This is to attain a comprehensive literature range that includes the impact of the SDGs on school-going transgender youths’ experiences at health care facilities. Inclusion and exclusion criteria Included studies will meet the following criteria: (i) focus on school-going transgender youths’ experiences at health care facilities, (ii) be full-text qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method studies (iii) have no language or publication year range restrictions. Quality and elimination of partiality will be achieved by examining author names and date, title, aim of study, study design, study setting, study population, population age and
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