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Care of Transgender Patients: A General Practice Quality Improvement Approach [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
Primary care must ensure high quality lifelong care is offered to trans and gender minority patients who are known to have poor health and adverse healthcare experiences. This quality improvement project aimed to interrogate and audit the data of trans and gender minority patients in one primary care population in England.
Boyd, Isabel, Hackett, Thomas, Bewley, Susan   +2 more
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Transgender Noninclusive Healthcare and Delaying Care Because of Fear: Connections to General Health and Mental Health Among Transgender Adults [PDF]

Transgender Health, 2017
Purpose: There are many barriers to reliable healthcare for transgender people that often contribute to delaying or avoiding needed medical care. Yet, few studies have examined whether noninclusive healthcare and delaying needed medical care because of fear of discrimination are associated with poorer health among transgender adults. This study aims to
Seelman, Kristie L., Colón-Diaz, Matthew J.P., LeCroix, Rebecca H., Xavier-Brier, Marik, Kattari, Leonardo   +4 more
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Transgender and anxiety: A comparative study between transgender people and the general population [PDF]

International Journal of Transgenderism, 2016
Background: Anxiety disorders pose serious public health problems. The data available on anxiety disorders in the transgender population is limited by the small numbers, the lack of a matched controlled population and the selection of a nonhomogenous group of transgender people.Aims: The aims of the study were (1) to determine anxiety symptomatology ...
Walter Pierre Bouman, Laurence Claes, Nicky Brewin, John R. Crawford, Nessa Millet, Fernando Fernandez-Aranda, Jon Arcelus   +6 more
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Congruence, Stress Adaptation and General Health of Transgender

Social Sciences & Humanity Research Review
Background: Transgender congruence quantifies the extent to which transgender people feel authentic and comfortable with their external appearance and presence, and how much they accept their identity over their socially prescribed identity. Transgender congruence affects their stress adaptation and general health.
null Mehnaz Saleem, null Laiba Qayyum, null Saba Tanseer, null Madiha Rauf, null Saima Saeed, null Mirrat Gul Butt   +5 more
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Depression Among Transgender Older Adults: General and Minority Stress [PDF]

American Journal of Community Psychology, 2017
AbstractThis study aims to (a) examine the direct and indirect effects internalized heterosexism, disclosure of gender identity, and perceived general stress in association with depression among transgender older adults; and (b) to assess the relative contribution of each relationship.
Charles P. Hoy‐Ellis, Karen I. Fredriksen‐Goldsen   +1 more
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To Refer or Not to Refer: General Pediatricians' Perspectives on Their Role in Caring for Transgender Youth [PDF]

Transgender Health, 2017
Little is known about general pediatricians' experience and knowledge regarding the care of transgender youth. We surveyed N=50 general pediatricians practicing in an integrated Midwest health system. Few respondents had participated in medical management care for transgender patients, but one-third were willing to do so if training opportunities were ...
Shires, Deirdre A., Schnaar, Ashley, Connolly, Maureen D., Stroumsa, Daphna   +3 more
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Towards Best-Practice Healthcare for Transgender Patients: Quality Improvement in United Kingdom General Practice [PDF]

Healthcare
Introduction: The ongoing care of transgender patients in United Kingdom (UK) general practice (GP) is hampered by a lack of UK primary care guidelines regarding the monitoring of treatments, despite the key role that general practice has in holistic lifelong care.
Carine Silver, Rebecca Calvey, Alexandra Martin, Joanne Butterworth   +3 more
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The experiences of transgender and nonbinary individuals in general practice in Denmark, with a focus on 'safer space'. [PDF]

Scand J Prim Health Care
Bennich EV, Guassora AD.
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Dealing with gender-related and general stress: Substance use among Brazilian transgender youth

Addictive Behaviors Reports, 2019
Adolescent substance use is a major public health concern since it enhances adolescent morbidity and mortality, affecting adulthood health and well-being. Although current evidence shows a high risk for substance use among transgender populations, to date, few studies evaluate substance use among transgender youth.Brazilian transgender youth (ages ...
Anna Martha Vaitses Fontanari, Paola Fagundes Pase, Siobhan Churchill, Bianca Machado Borba Soll, Karine Schwarz, Maiko Abel Schneider, Angelo Brandelli Costa, Maria Inês Rodrigues Lobato   +7 more
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The Hidden Smile- An Overview of the General and Oral Hygiene Status of Transgenders

Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, 2021
Transgenders constitute quite a sizeable population that remains a neglected group, facing much discrimination from the society in many respects especially in health. With their low self esteem and suicidal tendencies owing to neglect and shaming, financial constraints, they often neglect to maintain good personal hygiene.
null Manikandan Shanmugam, null Kurunji Kumaran Navaneethakrishnan, null Bhaskar Venkatachalam, null Rajasigamani Kandasamy, null Krishna Prasanth Baalann   +4 more
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