Table 5.
Research on non-clinical telehealth tools: research purpose, methodologies, and sample sizes, settings.
| Authors, publication date, title | Research purpose/question | Methodologies | Sample size, setting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health issue I: sexual and reproductive health (research) | |||
| Albury et al. (2021): Not your Unicorn: Trans Dating App User’s Negotiations of Personal Safety and Sexual Health | Exploring app use and healthcare in the context of the interdisciplinary field of “digital intimacies” | Interviews and workshops, creative (visual) research methods | N = 14, mailing lists of sexual health organizations and social media accounts |
| Masullo and Coppola (2021): Scripts and Sexual Markets of Transgender People on Online Dating Apps: A Netnographic Study | User data, influence of dating apps on defining processes related to gender expressivity and sexual script construction, constitution of spaces that meet emotional and sexual needs, discriminatory dynamics | Netnographic study combining different online/offline qualitative techniques | observation of N = 300 users´ profiles, n = 30 semi-structured interviews |
| Stephenson et al. (2020): Project Moxie: Results of a Feasibility Study of a Telehealth Intervention to Increase HIV Testing Among Binary and Nonbinary Transgender Youth | Developing an intervention that provides home-based HIV self-testing coupled with video-chat counseling | Randomized feasibility study | N = 202, online recruiting |
| Day et al. (2021): Beyond the Binary: Sexual Health Outcomes of Transgender and Non-Binary Service Users of an Online Sexual Health Service | Comparing sexual health outcomes of TNB and cisgender users of London’s online sexual health service | epidemiological study, univariable logistic regression analysis | N = 119,329 registrants, n = 504 TNB |
| MacKinnon and Bremshey (2020): Perspectives from a Webinar: COVID-19 and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights | How sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are affected during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in vulnerable social groups | Summary from a 100 min discussion on trans-persons and cross-cutting areas | N = 1,555 participants from 116 countries |
| Rogers et al. (2020): A Retrospective Study of Positive and Negative Determinants of Gamete Storage in Transgender and Gender-Diverse Patients | Formally categorizing the reasons trans-gender people store and do not store gamete prior to hormone treatment | Quantitative and qualitative data, analysis of electronic medical records | N = 3,667, recruiting via telemedicine service GenderGP |
| Health issue II: drug use | |||
| McQuoid et al. (2021): Exploring Multiple Drug Use by Integrating Mobile Health and Qualitative Mapping Methods – An Individual Case Study | Assessing multiple drug use and its unique patterns, intentions, and social contexts | Mixed methods approach, geo-enabled smartphone survey data and qualitative mapping interview method | N = 1 |
| Health issue III: healthcare (research) | |||
| Jarrett et al. (2021): Gender-Affirming Care, Mental Health, and Economic Stability in the Time of COVID-19: A Multi-National, Cross-Sectional Study of Transgender and Nonbinary People | Impact of COVID-19 and subsequent control measures on gender-affirming care, mental health, and economic stability | Global, cross-sectional study, mental health indicator PHQ-4, Poisson regression models | N = 964, data from COVID-19 Disparities Survey |
| Sell et al. (2015): The Utility of an Online Convenience Panel for Reaching Rare and Dispersed Populations | Investigating the utility of a large nonprobability online panel to conduct rapid population assessments of sexual and gender minorities | Epidemiological study, using similar data from two-population based surveys (NHIS and NESARC) | N = 34,759, Google Android Panel |