Parental Support and Mental Health Among Transgender Adolescents
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...First, in a transgender patient population not defined solely by GID and presenting at a community-based youth clinic, this study found high prevalence of depression, anxiety, suicide ideation, suicide attempt, self-harm without lethal intent, and lifetime inpatient mental health care utilization, corroborating research in other clinical settings [7,14,15,24] and in convenience sample studies [6,9,10,25,26]....
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...Perceived burdendthe extent to which transgender identity interferes with life activities or causes distressdwas positively correlated with greater depression and negatively associated with self-reported life satisfaction [7]....
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...Only a small handful of studies using transgender youth patient data have been conducted in clinical settings in the United States, and most of these have occurred in multidisciplinary gender clinics [7,14,15]....
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...Whereas family support is generally understood to have a protective role in the lives of adolescents [10], parents of transgender youth may have a crucial opportunity to offset the mental health impact of societal harassment and discrimination their children receive....
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...Parental support has been shown to protect against mental health problems in sexual minority adolescents [5] and has been associated with more consistent condom use in a study of transgender female youth [6]....
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