Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care

This cohort study investigates whether gender-affirming care is associated with decreased depression, anxiety, and suicidality among transgender and nonbinary youths.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  JAMA Network Open

• Publication date

  2022-02-01

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.0978PMID 35212746PMCID 8881768
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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