Sociodemographic Variables, Clinical Features, and the Role of Preassessment Cross-Sex Hormones in Older Trans People

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 711-719

  Bouman, Walter Pierre ^a   Claes, Laurence ^b,c   Marshall, Ellen ^a,d   Pinner, Gill T ^e   Longworth, Julia ^a   Maddox, Victoria ^a   Witcomb, Gemma ^a,d   Jimenez Murcia, Susana ^f,g   Fernandez Aranda, Fernando ^f,g   Arcelus, Jon ^a,e  

^a Nottingham Centre for Gender Dysphoria   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^g INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aging; Gender Dysphoria; Hormone Treatment; Mental Health; Midlife and Beyond; Self Esteem; Social Support; Transsexualism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS SEX HORMONE; DEPRESSION; EXPERIENCES OF TRANSPHOBIA SCALE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INVENTORY OF INTERPERSONAL PROBLEMS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALE OF PERCEIVED SOCIAL SUPPORT; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; ROSENBERG SELF-ESTEEM SCALE; SELF ESTEEM; SELF INJURY QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXISM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIALIZATION; TRANSGENDER; AGED; HUMAN RELATION; PERSONALITY TEST; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR;

SEX HORMONE;

AGED; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SELF CONCEPT; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSGENDER PERSONS;

EID: 84988515676     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2016.01.009     Document Type: Article

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