Capacity to consent: a scoping review of youth decision-making capacity for gender-affirming care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Transgender and gender expansive (TGE) youth often seek a variety of gender-affirming healthcare services, including pubertal suppression and hormone therapy requiring that TGE youth and their parents participate in informed consent and decision making. While youth must demonstrate the ability to understand and appreciate treatment options, risks, benefits, and alternatives as well as make and express a treatment choice, standardized approaches to assess the capacity of TGE youth to consent or assent in clinical practice are not routinely used. This scoping review identified the currently available data regarding adolescent capacity to consent to gender-affirming medical treatments.

Methods

Articles relevant to assessing adolescent capacity for clinical decision-m

SUBMITTER: Marino LG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11459853 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature