Dear medical students,
Thank you for taking the time to participate in our survey on cardiovascular care for sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals. SGM populations include, but are not limited to, individuals who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual, transgender, non-binary, or queer.
This study aims to investigate your knowledge about the specifics of cardiovascular care for the SGM population.
We want to ask you a set of questions concerning your medical education, your experiences with providing healthcare, and your perspective on healthcare for SGM individuals in general. The survey findings are expected to improve our understanding of the needs of SGM individuals in cardiovascular care.
The study is conducted by Andreas Koehler, MD, PhD, Peer Briken, MD, and Timo Nieder, PhD, of the Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Medicine, and Forensic Psychiatry at the University Medical Center Hamburg, Germany, in cooperation with
- Ross J. Simpson, Jr., MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, and
- Rebecca Beyer, Research Fellow, the Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, German Heart Institute Berlin (DHZB), Berlin, Germany.
Participation involves completing the survey. The survey is anonymous and will take approx. 15 minutes to complete. We do not collect any data that enables us to identify you as a person. You will not have any direct personal benefits or harm from participating in this study. Participation is voluntary, and you can stop taking the survey anytime. The study received ethical approval from the local ethics committee of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany (LPEK-0705).
If you have any questions, please contact us at an.koehler@uke.de
Thank you for your participation!
The project team Andreas Koehler, Rebecca Beyer, Timo Nieder, Peer Briken, & Ross Simpson Jr.