Needs Assessment - Center of Excellence for Transgender HIV Prevention Website

Questions for Clinicians

1. Zip code for your workplace or, if community member, home:

2. Professional licensing or specialization:

3. How many individual transgender patients have you provided care for in the past 12 months:

4. How comfortable are you in your ability to provide clinical care to a transgender patient?

5. How comfortable are you in your ability to provide effective HIV prevention counseling to a transgender patient?

6. Have you completed professional training in caring for transgender patients?

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Yes

If yes, please describe:

7. Do you think you would benefit from training on the health care needs of the transgender community?

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Yes

Not sure

7a. Which settings do you prefer for training? (check all you might use)

Online training

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Short course (1 hour available 24 hours/day)

Longer course (2-4 hours available 24 hours/day)

Webinar (90 minutes facilitated during a select time and date taken along with other clinicians)

Offsite training event

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2 hours

half-day

one-day

multi-day

Conference

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half-day

one-day

multi-day

Onsite training inservice

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2 hours

half-day

one-day

multi-day

Self study

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Fact sheets

Journal articles

Media/DVD

Additional settings:

List training topics of interest to you:

8. Where do you get your information about providing care for transgender patients?

Please list specific meetings, journals, or websites that you use for research about the transgender community:

9. Please rate how useful the following information might be to you or your workplace in providing health care to the transgender individuals: (1 = very useful, 5 = not at all useful)

Please rate how useful the following information might be to you or your workplace in providing health care to the transgender individuals: (1 = very useful, 5 = not at all useful)

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Surveillance reports and other reference material
Needs assessment examples and tools
Lists of potential funders
Descriptions of successful program designs
Summaries of research related to health care and the transgender community
Descriptions of and contact information for active programs serving the transgender community in California
Statewide calendar of meetings and events
Reports on emerging issues in transgender health promotion and care
Online training for program staff
Online training for clinicians
Onsite training for program staff
Onsite training for clinicians
Technical assistance (surveys, intake forms, evaluation, etc)
Best practice protocols
List of clinicians who serve transgender patients
List of trans-specific organizations (health, legal, policy, youth, etc)
Warm-line (free clinician phone service to answer medical questions)

10. Please provide us with any additional comments or suggestions:

If you also belong to one of the following groups, please click on the link to answer a few additional questions:

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1. Zip code for your workplace or, if community member, home:

2. Professional licensing or specialization:

3. How many individual transgender patients have you provided care for in the past 12 months:

4. How comfortable are you in your ability to provide clinical care to a transgender patient?

5. How comfortable are you in your ability to provide effective HIV prevention counseling to a transgender patient?

6. Have you completed professional training in caring for transgender patients?

If yes, please describe:

7. Do you think you would benefit from training on the health care needs of the transgender community?

Online training

Offsite training event

Conference

Onsite training inservice

Self study

Additional settings:

List training topics of interest to you:

Please list specific meetings, journals, or websites that you use for research about the transgender community:

9. Please rate how useful the following information might be to you or your workplace in providing health care to the transgender individuals: (1 = very useful, 5 = not at all useful)

10. Please provide us with any additional comments or suggestions:

1. Workplace setting:

2. Have you conducted research related to health care and the transgender community?

If yes, please describe:

If no, check any of the following that apply:

3. Please describe your area of research focus:

4. Do you think you would benefit from training on the health care needs of the transgender community?

1. How would you rate the knowledge of your health care provider about transgender health issues?

2. How would you rate the knowledge of your health care provider about HIV prevention and care for transgender people?

3. How would you rate the sensitivity of your health care provider's office staff to you as a transgender person?

4. Do you receive services from any community programs targeting the transgender community?

Please describe:

5. Do you think you would benefit from training on the health care needs of the transgender community?

6. Where do you learn about your own health care needs?

Please list helpful online sources:

1. Workplace setting: (check all that apply)

Briefly describe your agency or organization:

2. Workplace role:

3. Has your agency or organization ever conducted a needs assessment or other survey related to the transgender community and HIV prevention or care?

4. Does your agency or organization have programs that focus on the transgender community?

If no: (check all that apply)

If yes, which of the following is true?

5. Is information about how best to serve transgender clients part of your organization's staff training or orientation?

If no, would you like it to be?