Building healthcare workers' confidence to work with same-sex parented families

Same-sex parented families in Australia

Understanding resilience in same-sex parented families: the work, love, play study

BACKGROUND While families headed by same-sex couples have achieved greater public visibility in recent years, there are still many challenges for these families in dealing with legal and community contexts that are not supportive of same-sex relationships. The Work, Love, Play study is a large longitudinal study of same-sex parents. It aims to investigate many facets of family life among this s...

Healthcare workers with tuberculosis infected during work.

The risk for healthcare workers (HCWs) of tuberculosis (TB) attributable to occupational exposure is difficult to determine, as are the conditions contributing to this risk. The objective of the present study was to determine which TB cases among HCWs in the Netherlands were infected during work and to analyse factors which contributed to infection and subsequent disease. The total study popula...

Influenza vaccination for healthcare workers who work with the elderly.

BACKGROUND Healthcare workers' (HCWs) influenza rates are unknown, but may be similar to the general public and they may transmit influenza to patients. OBJECTIVES To identify studies of vaccinating HCWs and the incidence of influenza, its complications and influenza-like illness (ILI) in individuals >/= 60 in long-term care facilities (LTCFs). SEARCH STRATEGY We searched CENTRAL (The Cochr...

The Transition to Parenthood and Early Child Development in Families with Same-Sex Parents

As LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) adults are increasingly becoming parents through a diversity of pathways in many places around the world, greater attention is needed to support the transition to parenthood and early child development. Two key questions relevant to prospective parents in same-sex couples and to the professionals who work with them are: ‘What is the impact o...