Strategies to Mitigate Clinician Implicit Bias Against Sexual and Gender Minority Patients

IF 3.4 Q2 Medicine

Psychosomatics Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI:10.1016/j.psym.2020.04.021

Michal J. McDowell M.D., M.P.H. , Hilary Goldhammer S.M. , Jennifer E. Potter M.D. , Alex S. Keuroghlian M.D., M.P.H.

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Abstract

Background

Implicit bias is an ingrained, unconscious cultural stereotype that can negatively affect a person's interactions with members of stigmatized groups, including sexual and gender minorities. Clinician implicit biases may negatively impact the quality of patient care.

Methods

This article uses 4 case scenarios to illustrate how implicit bias among psychiatrists and other clinicians can affect patient-clinician communication and diminish the quality of health care provided to sexual and gender minority people. We offer strategies for clinicians to recognize, challenge, and address implicit bias.

Discussion

Through continuing education, self-reflection, and practice, psychiatrists and other clinicians can improve communication and foster more affirming care experiences for their sexual and gender minority patients, with the goal of addressing and ultimately eliminating sexual and gender minority health disparities.

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减轻临床医生对性少数和性别少数患者内隐偏见的策略

隐性偏见是一种根深蒂固的、无意识的文化刻板印象，它会对一个人与受歧视群体(包括性少数群体和性别少数群体)的互动产生负面影响。临床医生的内隐偏见可能会对患者护理质量产生负面影响。方法本文使用4个案例来说明精神科医生和其他临床医生之间的内隐偏见如何影响医患沟通，并降低向性少数和性别少数人群提供的卫生保健质量。我们为临床医生提供识别、挑战和解决内隐偏见的策略。通过持续的教育、自我反思和实践，精神科医生和其他临床医生可以改善沟通，为他们的性少数群体和性别少数群体患者提供更多肯定的护理体验，目标是解决并最终消除性少数群体和性别少数群体的健康差异。

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Psychosomatics 医学-精神病学

CiteScore

3.20

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0.00%

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审稿时长

6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： The mission of Psychosomatics is to be the leading psychiatry journal focused on the care of patients with comorbid medical and psychiatric illnesses. The scope of Psychosomatics includes original research, review articles and clinical reports that address psychiatric aspects of medical illnesses and their management. Areas of particular interest include: the effect of co-morbid psychiatric conditions on the management of medical illness; the psychiatric management of patients with comorbid medical illness; educational content for physicians and others specializing in consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatry; and, the provision of psychiatric services to medical populations, including integrated care.