An interview study exploring transgender people’ social interactions
Research type
Research Study
Full title
A qualitative study to explore transgender people’s experiences of social interactions: implications for the development of health care technologies to support interpersonal skills.
IRAS ID
206052
Contact name
Anna Nobili
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
Transgender people are individuals whose gender identity does not correspond to the gender assigned at birth. Some transgender people seek gender confirming medical treatment and access to gender services. Research looking at patients attending gender services found that transgender people are especially vulnerable to mental health problems and to psychosocial stressors, by showing higher levels of anxiety and depression. Interpersonal problems have been found to be the main predictors of depression and self-harm among young transgender people. Currently the only way to measure interpersonal problems is using questionnaires that are biased by retrospective data collection. The main overall aim of a series of studies, this one being the first one, is to develop an outcome measure for people to report interpersonal event as they happened. This will allow us to explore their interpersonal skills. The aim of this research is to identify both positive and negative interpersonal experiences in transgender people. To address this research question a qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews was designed. 20 transgender people aged 17-65 will be recruited and interviewed at the Nottingham Centre for Gender Dysphoria. Data will be analysed for key themes and findings will add to the literature field, which will inform clinical practice.
REC name
East Midlands - Nottingham 1 Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/EM/0313
Date of REC Opinion
14 Oct 2016
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion