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BackgroundSafe, accessible, and inclusive abortion care and pregnancy options counselling are essential components of sexual and reproductive health and rights. Research has documented LGBTIQA+ people are as likely, or more than likely, as the general population to experience an abortion in their lifetime yet face significant barriers to accessing abortion and related care, which undermines well-being.AimsThe present study undertakes a scoping review of research on the needs and experiences of the LGBTIQA+ population (representing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender diverse, intersex, queer, asexual, and questioning) when accessing abortion care, pregnancy options, and post-abortion counselling to support improved understanding of pregnant people’s preferences, needs, and experiences.MethodsThe reporting of this scoping review is guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension of Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). Academic databases were searched using terms relating to gender identity and sexuality, abortion, pregnancy options, and post-abortion counselling to identify peer reviewed papers published in English. Seven publications were included in the review that described experiences of LGBTIQA+ people accessing abortion-related care.ResultsThe included studies were predominantly conducted in the USA using quantitative and qualitative research designs. Thematic analysis highlighted participants’ experiences of discrimination and exclusion in healthcare settings, healthcare avoidance, unsafe abortion, non-disclosure to providers, and poor health outcomes for LGBTIQA+ people.ConclusionsGender-inclusive services and training for health providers is necessary to provide safe and accessible abortion care and overcome generations of mistrust held by the LGBTIQA+ community. Research into the needs of LGBTIQA+ people when accessing pregnancy options counselling is critically needed.

While interest in wellbeing has grown immensely among practitioners and researchers across various disciplines, there is limited understanding of how lay people, particularly emerging adults, conceptualise and experience wellbeing. Exploring the lived experiences of wellbeing can offer insight into the context within which emerging adults understand and manage their health as well as help facilitate a more dynamic understanding of the processes of their wellbeing. Using a participant-driven photo-elicitation interviewing method, this study explored how emerging adults understand and manage wellbeing in their daily lives. Eighteen emerging adults in South-East Queensland took pictures capturing their understanding of wellbeing and attended in-depth interviews to discuss the meaning of their photographs. Thematic analysis revealed five themes important to wellbeing: maintaining supportive relationships, looking after yourself, accepting yourself, progressing yourself, and centreing yourself. Participants discussed how these elements contributed to their wellbeing, demonstrating that wellbeing was perceived and experienced as a multifaceted, dynamic, and fluid construct. Maintaining supportive relationships was viewed by participants as the most crucial to wellbeing. The findings offer insight into how emerging adults understand and manage wellbeing in their daily lives. The findings can inform the development of population-acceptable health promotion interventions aligned with the views and experiences of emerging adults.