Publications by authors named "Katherine E Boguszewski"

Article Synopsis
  • Transgender and gender expansive (TGE) youth require informed consent for gender-affirming healthcare services, but standardized methods to evaluate their capacity to consent are lacking.
  • A scoping review identified eight relevant studies that explored how various factors like age and cognitive abilities affect adolescent decision-making in medical contexts, with only one focusing specifically on TGE youth.
  • Clinicians may benefit from using existing tools like the MacArthur Competence Assessment Tool to support shared decision-making while considering the developmental abilities of TGE youth.
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Introduction: Transgender and Nonbinary (TNB) youth need specialized sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and counseling. One avenue for providing this information is the use of informed consent documents before initiating pubertal suppression (PS) and/or gender-affirming hormones (GAHs). This study aims to compare the type and amount of SRH information included on informed consent documents used across clinical sites providing PS and GAH to youth.

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Objective: To qualitatively examine the fertility-related decision making process of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) adolescents and young adults (AYAs) and their parents, in the setting of pursing gender affirming treatments.

Study Design: Twenty-five TGD AYAs and 6 parents of TGD AYAs participated in a focus group or individual semistructured interviews focused on participants' experience learning about the effects of gender affirming treatments on fertility as well as the process of making a fertility preservation decision. Using open coding, data were analyzed in an iterative process identifying emerging themes and relationships.

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We examined fertility discussion and referral practice patterns in a gender clinic serving nonmetropolitan youth. Chart review collected data on demographics, gender-related health care visits, and fertility discussions and referrals from January 2010 to December 2017, inclusive. Of 66 patients, 78.

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