Health care of transgender people in hormonal use: A integrative review of the literature

International Journal of Development Research

Volume: 
09
Article ID: 
15198
6 pages
Research Article

Health care of transgender people in hormonal use: A integrative review of the literature

Carla Andreia Alves de Andrade, Wanderson Santos de Farias, Paula Daniella de Abreu, Amanda Oliveira Bernardino Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, Karla Romana Ferreira de Souza, Josueida de Carvalho Sousa, Marcos Antônio da Silva Filho and Ednaldo Cavalcante de Araújo

Abstract: 

The objective of this study was to evaluate national and international scientific evidence on the health care of transgender people using sex hormones. This is an integrative review, accomplished from consultation with the Virtual Health Library and the Medline, Cinahl, BDENF, Cuiden and Lilacs Databases. The inclusion criteria for selection of the sample were: articles published in English, Portuguese and Spanish, and no limits were set regarding the year of publication. As exclusion criteria are theses, dissertations, monographs, editorials and review articles. For the analysis of the selected articles, the sense nuclei that compose the ‘corpus’ of the study were identified. It was evidenced that the use of hormones by transgender people is a subject of social and scientific interest and the care that is fulfilled during the use of these hormones, although important, is still considered as a topic with little coverage in the scientific environment.

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