Health care of transgender people in hormonal use: A integrative review of the literature
International Journal of Development Research
Health care of transgender people in hormonal use: A integrative review of the literature
Received 26th December, 2018; Received in revised form 22nd January, 2019; Accepted 03rd February, 2019; Published online 29th March, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Carla Andreia Alves de Andrade. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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.
