Akiki Ronald K, Borrelli Mimi R, Kwan Daniel
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Transgend Health. 2021 Oct 4;6(5):240-243. doi: 10.1089/trgh.2020.0128. eCollection 2021 Oct.
Online crowdfunding allows transgender patients to fundraise for their surgeries or hormonal therapy. In this study, we updated the geographic trends in fundraising for gender-affirming surgery and sought to establish the factors influencing the amount raised per campaign. Campaigns were identified from GoFundMe. In total, 1010 crowdfunding campaigns were identified. The West had the highest proportion of campaigns (=242, 34.6%). Controlling for each variable, we found that campaigns that raised the greatest amount of funds were associated with longer descriptions (<0.0001, =0.34), higher number of social media shares (<0.0001, =0.39), higher goal amount (=0.041, =0.19), and number of donors (<0.0001, =0.44).
在线众筹使跨性别患者能够为他们的手术或激素治疗筹集资金。在本研究中，我们更新了性别肯定手术筹款的地理趋势，并试图确定影响每个筹款活动筹集金额的因素。筹款活动是从GoFundMe上识别出来的。总共识别出1010个众筹活动。西部的活动比例最高（=242个，34.6%）。在控制了每个变量后，我们发现筹集资金最多的活动与更长的描述（<0.0001，=0.34）、更高的社交媒体分享次数（<0.0001，=0.39）、更高的目标金额（=0.041，=0.19）以及捐赠者数量（<0.0001，=0.44）有关。
