{"id":2005,"date":"2018-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/13\/most-patients-fine-with-providers-asking-about-sexual-orientation\/"},"modified":"2018-03-14T16:08:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T16:08:33","slug":"most-patients-fine-with-providers-asking-about-sexual-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/13\/most-patients-fine-with-providers-asking-about-sexual-orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Patients Fine With Providers Asking About Sexual Orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>It is believed these questions may help to reduce health disparities among LGBTI patients<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, March 13, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; The vast majority of patients (97 percent) are comfortable with health providers asking sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) questions, according to a study published online March 9 in <i>Health Services Research<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan E. Rullo, Ph.D., from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and colleagues assessed 491 new patients&#8217; attitudes towards intake forms at three outpatient clinics within a large academic medical center. Patients were randomized to receive either routine intake forms or routine forms plus a SOGI questionnaire.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers observed no significant differences in patient attitudes between the two groups (P > 0.05). Only 3 percent of those receiving SOGI questions reported being distressed, upset, or offended.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our results should help ease the concerns of providers who want to deliver the highest-quality care for their patients but may not ask sexual orientation or gender identity questions for fear of distressing or offending their patients,&#8221; a coauthor said in a statement. &#8220;These questions will help Mayo Clinic identify the unique, unmet needs of LGBTI patients and highlight that equitable care for all people is a top priority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/1475-6773.12843\/abstract\" target=\"_new\">Abstract<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/wol1\/doi\/10.1111\/1475-6773.12843\/pdf\" target=\"_new\">Full Text (subscription or payment may be required)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is believed these questions may help to reduce health disparities among LGBTI patients<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2025,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}