Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Men in Transition to Parenthood: a strength-based approach for mental health and well-being

同性恋、双性恋、变性人和同性恋(GBTQ)男性在为人父母的过程中心理健康和幸福感较低。然而，GBTQ男性在为人父母的过程中的心理健康和幸福感的研究严重不足。事实上，GBTQ男性的幸福处于家庭研究和生殖健康领域的边缘，英国目前的研究优先考虑异性恋和女同性恋母亲的心理健康和幸福。关于LGBT父母家庭的既定研究也主要侧重于衡量和评估家庭功能及其对儿童福祉和发展的影响。这项研究旨在对理论和实践做出独特的贡献，将LGBT+社区的传统研究重点转移到更全面的方向，包括GBTQ男性代表不足的声音。这项拟议的研究将探索GBTQ男性在为人父母的过程中的心理健康和幸福感。我将采用基于力量的方法来了解GBTQ男性在为人父母方面依赖哪些资源，以及如何将这些资源整合到他们所获得的服务中。为了通过基于力量的镜头了解GBTQ男性的经历，我将重点研究以下问题：1.GBTQ男性在为人父母方面有哪些经验？2.GBTQ男性在为人父母方面有哪些健康和社会关怀需求？3.GBTQ男性在为人父母方面依赖哪些资源？4.如何将这些资源整合到服务中，以支持GBTQ男性为人父母？采用基于力量的方法有助于设计干预措施，能够促进GBTQ男性在过渡到为人父母的过程中增强能力和自我效能的计划和政策。事实上，基于强项的干预措施促进了一套可以突出GBTQ男性自决的价值观和做法，并庆祝和照顾他们的资源和能力，寻求支持和加强这些资源，以管理心理健康和福祉问题的影响(Baron和Stanley，2019年)。参与者将通过与LGBTQ+组织在国家一级的研究计划期间建立的网络来招募。这项研究的目的是招募一个考虑种族、民族和年龄的多样化样本，以反映GBTQ父母家庭的多样性。本研究将分两个阶段采用定性研究方法。将寻求公众参与方法的设计，并征求社区团体和GBTQ家长家庭的意见。公众提供的经验提供的专业知识将提高研究的质量和相关性，同时增加其实现变化的潜力。有声日记是一种定性的纵向方法，也是书面日记方法的演变形式，可以支持这一研究项目。这种方法的不引人注意的性质可能最适合于探索GBTQ男性追求为人父母的日常和复杂的经历，同时仍然允许收集丰富的和时间上的数据。这些日记将详细说明在为人父母的过程中发生的任何重大事件，包括发生了什么，什么事情进展顺利，为什么，以及参与者如何通过考虑自己的优势和不足来处理这一问题(第一季度)。半结构化访谈可以补充从音频日记中收集的数据。访谈可以对问题进行更全面的调查，对与为人父母相关的事件的意义和影响进行更彻底的思考，而不是描述事件的发展。因此，这些数据适用于解决第二季度、第三季度和第四季度的问题。数据将被用来与GBTQ家长社区共同制作一个工具包，该工具包将建议为卫生和社会护理专业人员、地方当局和第三部门组织实施不同的基于力量的干预措施，以改进他们在处理GBTQ家长时的做法。

Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (GBTQ) men experience low rates of mental health and wellbeing in pursuing parenthood. Nevertheless, the mental health and wellbeing of GBTQ men in pursuing parenthood is significantly understudied. Indeed, the wellbeing of GBTQ men sits at the periphery of family studies and the reproductive health field where current research in the UK prioritises the psychological health and wellbeing of heterosexual and lesbian mothers. Established research on LGBT-parent families is also mostly oriented towards measuring and assessing family functioning and the impact on children's wellbeing and development. This study intends to make a unique contribution to theory and practice by shifting away from this traditional research focus with LGBT+ communities towards a more holistic orientation to include the under-represented voices of GBTQ men. The proposed research will explore the mental health and wellbeing of GBTQ men in pursuing parenthood. I will employ a strength-based approach to understand what resources GBTQ men rely on in pursuing parenthood and how these can be integrated into the services they access.To understand the experiences of GBTQ men through a strength-based lens, I will focus on the following research questions:1. What are the experiences of GBTQ men in pursuing parenthood?2. What are GBTQ men's health and social care needs in pursuing parenthood?3. What resources do GBTQ men rely on in pursuing parenthood?4. How can these resources be integrated into services to support GBTQ men in pursuing parenthood?Adopting a Strengths-Based approach can help to design interventions, programs and policies that can foster empowerment and self-efficacy in GBTQ men in transition to parenthood. Indeed, strengths-based interventions promote a set of values and practices that can foreground GBTQ men's self-determination and celebrate and attend to their resources and capacities, seeking to support and build on these resources to manage the impact of mental health and wellbeing issues (Baron and Stanley, 2019).Participants will be recruited via networks established during the programme of studies with LGBTQ+ organisations at a national level. The research will aim to recruit a diverse sample considering race, ethnicity and age to reflect the diversity of GBTQ-parent families. The research will employ a qualitative multimethod in two phases. Public involvement will be sought in the design of the methods with input from community groups and GBTQ-parent families. The expertise by experience offered by members of the public will improve the quality and the relevance of the research while increasing its potential to achieve change.Audio diaries are a qualitative longitudinal method and an evolved form of the written diary method that could support this research project. The unobtrusive nature of this method could be most suited to explore the daily and complex experiences of GBTQ men pursuing parenthood, whilst still allowing for the collection of rich and time-situated data. The diaries would detail any significant happenings in pursuing parenthood, including what happened, what went well and why, and how participants dealt with it through a consideration of their strengths and deficits (Q1). Semi-structured interviews could supplement the data collected from the audio diaries. Interviews could allow a more holistic investigation of issues and more thorough reflections on the significance and implications of events correlated to pursuing parenthood rather than describing events as they unfold. These are therefore suited to address Q2, Q3 and Q4.Data could be thematically analysed. Data will be used to co-produce a toolkit with GBTQ-parent communities which will suggest the implementation of different strength-based interventions for health and social care professionals, local authorities and third sector organisations to improve their practice when dealing with GBTQ-parents.