Article Summaries

A. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3114100/ -
 I. The main purpose of this paper is to summarize and review the data on the implications of puberty suppression in children and adolescents.
 II. The main results and conclusions of the paper suggest that puberty suppression when used in cases where adolescents express lots of gender dysphoria were beneficial. Psychological benefits have been shown in the studies, however more research is definitely necessary.
 III. The research methods of this paper were to overview other case studies done by previous researchers and summarize the findings from 1998 when the first GnRH study was conducted up until the release of the article, and explore whether it beneficial for people.
 IV. This paper is relevant to my topic because it shows what the impact of a sample of adolescents who experience gender dysphoria has on the adolescent brain.

B. https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/134/4/696.full.pdf
 I. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze a study group of adolescent patients who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria and study the results of GnRH usage as well as gender reassignment surgery.
 II. The main results and conclusions of the paper were that subjects who underwent puberty suppression as well as CSH and GRS had significantly reduced gender dysphoria and their well-being was also comparable to others.
 III. The research methods used in this paper was they had 55 patients who had been identified with gender dysphoria tracked at 3 separate times when they started taking GnRH, when they started taking cross-sex hormones, and 1 year after gender reassignment surgery. They tracked the objective, subjective, and overall well-being of the individuals using various tests.
 IV. This paper is relevant to my topic because it gives me lots of empirical data from a study that I can learn about how the patients reacted psychologically and physically to the treatment known as the Dutch protocol.

C. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44252647?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=puberty&searchText=suppression&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dpuberty%2Bsuppression%2B&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_SYC-4631%2Ftest&refreqid=search%3A88fdd8ad809a03fdf66ee1920dae4bf5&seq=14#metadata_info_tab_contents
 I. The main purpose of this article was to critique the data that had been found on the effects of puberty suppression and its proposed implementation.
 II. The main conclusion reacher in the paper reached is that another route must be taken or more research must be conducted into what kinds of people would benefit from the treatment.
 III. The research method used in the paper was to give an overview of the topic and it's relation to puberty, and then to analyze the most current data and pinpoint the areas that must be reanalyzed
 IV. This paper is relevant to my topic because it shows an alternative point of view that discusses some limitations and objections to puberty suppression in terms of brain development.

D. https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(16)30146-X/fulltext
 I. The main purpose of this article is to provide an overview on the 2011 Institute of Medicine's report on the health of transgenders, gays, bisexuals, and lesbians.
 II. The main results show that transgenders have higher rates of depression and suicide when compared to peers
 III. The research methods used was to combine a massive search of the database by keyword to collect articles which were then sifted through to find relevant and factual data to compile.
 IV. This paper is relevant to my topic because it explains the need to solve a problem of growing depression and suicide rates amongst transgender peoples.

E. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3114100/
 I. The main purpose of this article is to summarize a 22 year case-study on a gender dysphoric person who underwent puberty suppression.
 II. The main results show the psychological and physical impacts of the treatment after 22 years, the longest study ever conducted on puberty-suppression currently.
 III. The research methods showed treatment of a 13 year old with GnRH, who underwent hormonal treatment at 17 and genital surgery at 20, and the impacts of them now, at age 35.
 IV. This paper is relevant to my topic because it is the longest case study known thus on puberty suppression, which is extremely important because the long-term effects are unknown.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Analytical Report Rough Draft

IMRaD rough draft

Introduction to IMRaD