Family Relationships and Nutrition in TGGD Youth and Young Adults

Saint Louis University (SLU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nutrition Disorders; Family Relations; Health Behavior; Transgenderism

Treatments: Other: Survey

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05163860

31659

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess how family relationships are related to health and nutrition behaviors among transgender and gender diverse youth and young adults.

Full description

The study is recruiting the following populations: parents of transgender and gender diverse youth, transgender and gender diverse young adults, and transgender and gender diverse youth. Participants over the age of 18 will be recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), and youth participants will be recruited via parent referral. Age and role-appropriate surveys will be administered to the three distinct populations. A waiver of written consent for participation will be used per survey protocol. After participants receive a recruitment statement about the study and the potential risks, willing participants will take a 10-20 minute survey to provide data regarding demographics, height and weight, food habits, physical activity, food security, health support, risk-taking behaviors, past health diagnoses, and family environment. No personal identifiers will be collected and all responses will remain confidential. Our main question is whether family acceptance of a transgender or gender diverse (TGGD) youth and young adults is related to health, nutrition, and risk-taking behaviors.

Enrollment: 714 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

TGGD Young Adults:

• 18 to 25 years of age
• Self-identify as transgender or gender diverse
• A resident of the United States of America or Canada
• English speaking.

Parent of TGGD Youth

• A parent of a 12-17 year old TGGD youth
• A resident of the United States of America or Canada
• English speaking
• Have a child that self-identifies as transgender or gender diverse

TGGD Youth

• 12 to 17 years of age
• Self-identify as transgender or gender diverse
• A resident of the United States of America or Canada
• English speaking

Exclusion criteria

TGGD Young Adults

• Less than 18 years of age or greater than 25 years of age
• Self-identify as cis-gender
• Not a resident of the United States of America or Canada
• Non-english speaking

Parent of TGGD Youth:

• Parents of children that are less than 12 years of age or greater than 17 years of age
• Not a resident of the United States of America or Canada
• Non-english speaking
• Does not identify as a parent of a TGGD child

TGGD Youth

• Less than 12 years of age or greater than 17 years of age
• Does not self-identify as transgender or gender diverse
• Not a resident of the United States of America or Canada
• Non-english speaking

Trial design

714 participants in 3 patient groups

Youth

Description:

TGGD youth age 12-17 will answer a survey regarding demographics (gender identity, sex assigned at birth, age, religion, degree of religiosity, degree of family religiosity, degree of conservatism/liberalism, degree of family conservatism/liberalism, ethnicity), age at which they revealed their gender identity, family gender environment (FGE), eating disorder risk (ADO-BED, previous Eating Disorder diagnosis), food insecurity (HVS), perceived support of healthy eating and physical activity (SheL), risk taking behavior (ARQ), adequacy of physical activity (PACE+), bodyweight (BMI, BMI%ile, %mBMI), and previously diagnosed psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders

Treatment:

Other: Survey

Young Adults

Description:

TGGD young adults age 18-25 will answer a survey regarding demographics (gender identity, sex assigned at birth, country of residence, ethnicity, age, religion, degree of religiosity, degree of family religiosity, degree of conservatism/liberalism), age at which they revealed their gender identity, family gender environment (FGE), eating disorder risk (SCOFF, ADO-BED, previous ED diagnosis), food insecurity (HVS), perceived support of healthy eating and physical activity (SheL), risk taking behavior (RRBQ), bodyweight (BMI), malnutrition risk (MST), and previously diagnosed psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Treatment:

Other: Survey

Parents

Description:

Parents of TGGD youth will answer a survey with information regarding demographics (religion, degree of religiosity, degree of conservatism/liberalism, country of residence, ethnicity, gender identity, sex assigned at birth, sexual orientation, education, marital status, household size, income), anxiety (GAD-7), depression (PHQ-9), family gender environment (FGE), food insecurity (HVS), height and bodyweight (BMI).

Treatment:

Other: Survey