A Knowledge-Based Assessment of Dermatological Care for Transgender Women

Dermatologic care plays an important role in the transitioning process for transgender women, with changes occurring to the skin from hormone therapy (HT) and gender affirming procedures. We sought to identify knowledge gaps in a group of transgender women pertaining to both skin and hair changes du...

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Autores principales: Sabra, James J., Fang, Celestia X., Kundu, Roopal V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 2018
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5938641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29756045
http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/trgh.2018.0001
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description Dermatologic care plays an important role in the transitioning process for transgender women, with changes occurring to the skin from hormone therapy (HT) and gender affirming procedures. We sought to identify knowledge gaps in a group of transgender women pertaining to both skin and hair changes during the transitioning process. The study was conducted as a cross-sectional survey. Our results demonstrate potential gaps in knowledge that transgender women have regarding HT and gender affirming procedures.
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spelling pubmed-59386412018-05-11 A Knowledge-Based Assessment of Dermatological Care for Transgender Women Sabra, James J. Fang, Celestia X. Kundu, Roopal V. Transgend Health Short Report Dermatologic care plays an important role in the transitioning process for transgender women, with changes occurring to the skin from hormone therapy (HT) and gender affirming procedures. We sought to identify knowledge gaps in a group of transgender women pertaining to both skin and hair changes during the transitioning process. The study was conducted as a cross-sectional survey. Our results demonstrate potential gaps in knowledge that transgender women have regarding HT and gender affirming procedures. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 2018-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5938641/ /pubmed/29756045 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/trgh.2018.0001 Text en © James J. Sabra et al. 2018; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. This Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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