Shaping parents: Impact of contrasting professional counseling on parents' decision making for children with disorders of sex development

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1953-1960

  Streuli, Jürg C ^a   Vayena, Effy ^a   Cavicchia Balmer, Yvonne ^a   Huber, Johannes ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disorders of Sex Development; Informed Consent; Intersex; Normality; Pediatric Endocrinology; Pediatric Psychology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ENDOCRINOLOGIST; FAMILY DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LIKERT SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF EVALUATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDER; VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; DECISION MAKING; DISORDER OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PARENT; PHYSICIAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ATTITUDE; CHILD; COUNSELING; DECISION MAKING; DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; PARENTS; PHYSICIANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84881097862     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jsm.12214     Document Type: Article

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