The Experiences of Erotic and Sexual Risk of Transgender Men: Exploratory Research Design

Sexual Health Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Experiences of Erotic and Sexual Risk of Transgender Men: Exploratory Research Design

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05187442
• Other study ID #: 20210HS3001
• Status: Completed
• Start date: January 12, 2022
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: August 2023
• Source: National Taiwan University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational [Patient Registry]

Clinical Trial Summary

Transgender male (TM) is the minority and difficult to reach-up group. Therefore, there is a lack of research on private issues involving TM, such as sex, eroticism, and sexual risk behavior. This study focuses on TM as the research participant, based on Milton Mayeroff's caring theory, to understand the TM's erotic culture and the sexual risks behavior, to evaluate the need for subsequent sexual health care. The research method is a mixed methods research of explanatory design, which recruits participants through purposive sampling and respondent-driven sample (RDS) methods. The first stage is an online questionnaire survey. A total of 321 TMs were recruited. The time of online questionnaire is about 10-15 minutes to get a preliminary understanding of the erotic and sexual risk experience of TM in Taiwan. In the second stage, focus groups and in-depth interviews will be conducted, 2 hours of each group and interview. A total of 29 transgender man and women, and non-binary participants were recruited. The recruitment will be stop when the data are saturated. The analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data can get an in-depth understanding of sex, eroticism, and sexual risk, and violence experiences of the participants. The research results are important for improving the awareness and identification of sexual risk and the assessment of sexual health care needs of TM in health care profession. The results also serve as a reference guide for the development of care needs on sexual health care and anti-violence of transgender people, and for the implement of a gender-friendly environment for medical care.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 321
• Est. completion date: July 31, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: June 30, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years and older

Eligibility

First stage:

Inclusion Criteria:

1. People who used to or currently self-identified as transgender men, regardless of whether they have sex reassignment surgery.

2. Be over 20 years old.

3. Citizen and live in Taiwan.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Not self-identify as transgender men

2. Younger than 20 years old

3. Not citizen and not live in Taiwan.

Second stage

1. People who used to or currently self-identified as transgender men, transgender woman or non-binary, regardless of whether they have gender-affirming surgery.

2. Be over 20 years old.

3. Citizen and live in Taiwan.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Not self-identify as transgender men, transgender woman or non-binary.

2. Younger than 20 years old

3. Not citizen and not live in Taiwan.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Sexual Health
• Transgender Persons

Intervention

Other:
• questionnaire, interview
The first stage is an online questionnaire survey. A total of 321 TMs were recruited. The time of online questionnaire is about 10-15 minutes to get a preliminary understanding of the erotic and sexual risk experience of TM in Taiwan. In the second stage, focus groups and in-depth interviews will be conducted, 2 hours of each group and interview. A total of 29 transgender man and women, and non-binary participants were recruited.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	School of Nursing of National Taiwan University	Taipei

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
National Taiwan University	Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Experience of erotic and sexual risk of transgender men	Collect objective data via questionnaires	At time of entry into study
Primary	Experience of violence experience of transgender	Qualitative analysis of interview or focus group.	months3-6(In the second stage)