A systematic review of decision aids for gender affirming therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) persons considering gender affirming therapy have to make many complex medical decisions, potentially without understanding the associated harms or benefits of hormonal and surgical interventions. Further, clinicians are often unaware of how best to communicate information to persons seeking gender affirming therapy. Patient decision aids have been developed to provide evidence-based information as a way to help people make decisions in collaboration with their clinicians. It is unclear whether such tools exist for persons seeking gender affirming therapy. The objective of our systematic review is to search for and determine the quality of any existing patient decision aids developed for TGD persons considering gender affirming therap

SUBMITTER: Scalia P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8261453 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature