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Article: Health care providers' knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy for working with patients with spinal cord injury who have diverse sexual orientations.(Research Report)
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- Physical Therapy
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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This study, using an evaluative, cross-sectional design, explored the self-efficacy, knowledge, and attitudes of health care providers who treat people with spinal cord injury (SCI) who may be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender (GLBT). The study also designed, implemented, and measured the effect of a diversity training program on participants' perception of their ability to change. Several definitions are important to the presentation of this study. First, for the purposes of this report, spinal cord injury is defined as an injury to the spinal cord due to trauma or disease. Second, attitude is defined as "a predisposition to behave or react in a certain way toward ...