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| Title |
Understanding the needs of professionals who provide psychosocial care for children and adults with disorders of sex development
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| Published in |
BMJ Paediatrics Open, August 2017
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| DOI | 10.1136/bmjpo-2017-000132 |
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| Authors |
Arianne Dessens, Guilherme Guaragna-Filho, Andreas Kyriakou, Jillian Bryce, Caroline Sanders, Agneta Nordenskjöld, Marta Rozas, Violeta Iotova, Annastasia Ediati, Anders Juul, Maciej Krawczynski, Olaf Hiort, S Faisal Ahmed |
| Abstract |
Disorders in sex development (DSD) can be treated well medically, but families will encounter many psychosocial challenges. Promoting counselling to facilitate acceptance and coping is important yet equality of access is unknown. This study investigated the modalities of psychosocial care provided in centres of DSD care. An international survey conducted among 93 providers of psychosocial care, identified through clinical networks, registries and professional forums. Forty-six respondents from 22 different countries filled out the survey (49%). Most respondents (78%) were based in hospital-based expert teams. Referrals came from paediatric endocrinologists (76%), gynaecologists (39%) and paediatric urologists (37%). Psychological counselling was most frequently given to parents (74%), followed by children (39%), adolescents (37%) and adults (11%) and was most frequently focused on coping and acceptance of DSD (54%), education (52%), the atypical body (39%) and genital (41%), decisions on genital surgery (33%), complications with sexual intercourse (29%), disclosure (28%) and acceptance of infertility (11%). Respondents most frequently observed DSD related confusion about gender (54%), acceptance of cross gender behaviour (50%), anxiety (43%) and sadness and depression (38%). Most psychosocial care is provided to parents. It is assumed that parental support is important as acceptance is conditional to become affectionate caretakers. Although it may be more difficult for youngsters to communicate about their condition and treatment, providing opportunity to bring up issues that are important for them, is imperative. Clinicians and parents should be aware that parental and patients' interests may not correspond completely. Psychosocial management should also include transition and adult care. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 80 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 11% |
| Researcher | 8 | 10% |
| Other | 6 | 8% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 15 | 19% |
| Unknown | 26 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 23% |
| Psychology | 9 | 11% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 6% |
| Materials Science | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 6 | 8% |
| Unknown | 31 | 39% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 October 2017.
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#18,573,839
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Outputs from BMJ Paediatrics Open
#477
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#242,521
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Outputs of similar age from BMJ Paediatrics Open
#29
of 31 outputs
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