Research Article
Parental Reports of Stigma Associated with Child’s Disorder of Sex Development
Table 3
Index case characteristics (
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| | M (SD) | Range |
| Age (years) | 4.9 (3.7) | 0–16 |
| | (%) | | |
| Gender announcement | | | | Announced at birth | 53 (49.5) | | | Delayed assignment | 23 (21.5) | | | Reassigned | 1 (0.0) | | | Unknowna | 30 (28.0) | | | Gender of rearing | | | | Boys | 61 (57) | | | Girls | 46 (43) | | |
| | (%) | Gender assignment | | boys () | girls () |
| DSD diagnosis | | | | Sex chromosome DSD | 6 (5.6) | 3 | 3 | 45,X/46,XY (e.g., mixed gonadal dysgenesis) | 6 (5.6) | 3 | 3 | 46,XY DSD | 67 (62.6) | 56 | 11 | Disorders of gonadal (testicular) development | 7 (6.5) | 6 | 1 | Disorders in androgen synthesis or action | 14 (13.1) | 5 | 9 | Other (e.g., aphallia, micropenis secondary to panhypopituitarism, and hypospadias) | 46 (43.0) | 45 | 1 | 46,XX DSD | 34 (31.8) | 2 | 32 | Disorders of gonadal (ovarian) development | 1 (0.9) | 1 | 0 | Androgen excess (congenital adrenal hyperplasia) | 29 (27.1) | 0 | 29 | Other (e.g., Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome, and Müllerian anomaly) | 4 (3.7) | 1 | 3 | Atypical sex chromosomes relative to gender of rearing | 19 (17.8) | | |
| | M (SD) | | |
| Number of DSD-related procedures | 2.49 (2.31) | | | Genital appearance atypicality at birth relative to gender of rearing | | | | Boysb | 2.87 (0.72) | | | Girlsc | 2.36 (1.30) | | |
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Insufficient information in medical record to categorize; b7-point scale where 1 = most typical; c5-point scale where 1 = most typical.
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