Psychological Vulnerabilities and Transgender Adolescents: A Descriptive Epidemiology Study (VATED)

Toulouse University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Gender Dysphoria, Adolescent

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: KSADS (Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05126134

RC31/21/0385

Details and patient eligibility

About

The number of adolescents engaging in a transidentity journey has been increasing rapidly over the last decade. However, the knowledge of the medical world concerning the specificities of these adolescents is still too little in France. The objective of this study is to refine the knowledge of the different health care providers who are brought to meet these adolescents. This research proposes to study more specifically the register of psychological vulnerabilities: to cite only a few examplesThese include disorders such as depression, anxiety disorders and eating disorders, all of which cause suffering and difficulties in everyday life. A better understanding of the presence or absence and the distribution of these different types of vulnerabilities among transgender adolescents would allow, among other things, to promote their their screening by health care providers. This better screening would allow doctors to physicians to offer targeted treatment for these disorders in parallel with the transition process. transition process.

Enrollment: 15 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Be between 12 and 18 years old
• Be followed up at the gender consultation of the Toulouse University Hospital

Exclusion criteria

• Have not yet completed the first consultation on gender issues at the time of selection.
• Have only one last appointment with the gender consultation at the time of selection

Trial design

15 participants in 1 patient group

adolescents followed for gender dysphoria

Description:

The data collection by the examiner takes place during a single interview centered around the child's completion of a semi-structured questionnaire: the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia. The child is interviewed alone and then with an accompanying parent.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: KSADS (Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia)