■尽管全球对性别多样化青年的研究大量增加,在非洲,没有关于向卫生服务机构介绍不同性别的儿童和青少年的研究。
这项研究旨在介绍在南非参加性别服务的青年的人口和心理健康概况,这是非洲的第一个发现。
■专业精神卫生门诊服务,包括精神病学,心理学和护理输入,西开普省不同性别的儿童和青少年患者。
■在性别服务中看到的所有同意的年轻人,包括精神病学,心理学和护理输入,在2012年1月至2019年5月期间,州和私人执业的同一位临床医生是回顾性研究的参与者,序贯病例系列研究。感兴趣的数据,包括性别认同和性取向,心理健康史和社会信息,是从参与者的精神病学档案中提取的。
■39名参与者是注册的一部分,并有资格参加研究:72%的人自我鉴定为白人,15%为有色,13%为非洲黑人。同时发生的精神病理学的比率很高(64%),包括自闭症的高比率,尤其是跨性别男性(26%),31%的自杀意念和10%的自杀未遂史。
■这项首次研究描述了在非洲寻求与性别认同有关的性别多元化青年的支持,表明他们与国际研究人员有显着的相似之处。
■确定该省所有主要种族群体的跨性别青年与世界其他地区人口特征相似,正在向南非的服务机构提供服务,需要心理健康支持和干预措施。
UNASSIGNED: Despite a massive global increase in research on gender-diverse youth, there have been no studies in Africa on gender-diverse children and adolescents presenting to health services.
UNASSIGNED: This study aimed to present the first African findings of the demographic and mental health profile of youth who have presented at a gender service in South Africa.
UNASSIGNED: A specialist mental health outpatient service, consisting of psychiatry, psychology and nursing input, for gender-diverse child and adolescent patients in the Western Cape.
UNASSIGNED: All consenting youth seen at a gender service, consisting of psychiatry, psychology and nursing input, in state and by the same clinician in private practice between January 2012 and May 2019 were participants of a retrospective, sequential case series study. Data of interest, including gender identity and sexuality, mental health history and social information, were extracted from the psychiatry files of participants.
UNASSIGNED: Thirty-nine participants were part of the registry and qualified for the study: 72% self-identified as white, 15% as coloured and 13% as black African. The rate of co-occurring psychopathology was high (64%) and included high rates of autism, particularly in trans males (26%), suicidal ideation in 31% and a history of suicide attempt(s) in 10%.
UNASSIGNED: This first study describing gender-diverse youth seeking support relating to their gender identity in Africa showed they had remarkable similarities to those studied internationally.
UNASSIGNED: Establishing that transgender youth of all major racial groups in the province with similar demographic profiles to other parts of the world are presenting to services in South Africa and in need of mental health support and interventions.