Open AccessPossibilities of HRT in solving the problem of psychosocial adaptation of girls with primary estrogen deficiency
Author(s) -
Е В Уварова,
Н Е Харламенкова,
Nadezhda Astakhova,
Iskra Meshkova
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
žurnalʺ akušerstva i ženskihʺ boleznej
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1684-0461
pISSN - 1683-9366
DOI - 10.17816/jowd88986
Subject(s) - gonadal dysgenesis , estrogen , medicine , turner syndrome , psychosocial , developmental psychology , adaptation (eye) , disorders of sex development , hormone , pediatrics , endocrinology , physiology , psychology , psychiatry , neuroscience
This study presents the results of testing the hypothesis that girls during the period of normally proceeding puberty experience much more emotional discomfort, difficulties in communication and self-acceptance due to more pronounced hormonal and bodily changes than normally developing boys. Along with this, for the first time, results are presented that indicate some similarity of adaptive responses in boys with normal puberty and in girls with primary estrogen deficiency on the background of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The development of girls with 450-gonadal dysgenesis (with Turner syndrome) on the background of HRT is considered as adaptive to the tasks of age, less than their passport data. Girls with XY-sex reversion with gonadal dysgenesis are assessed as sufficiently adapted due to certain personal and age characteristics.