Purpose: There are many barriers to reliable healthcare for transgender people that often contribute to delaying or avoiding needed medical care. Yet, few studies have examined whether noninclusive healthcare and delaying needed medical care because of fear of discrimination are associated with poorer health among transgender adults. This study aims to address these gaps in the knowledge base. ...

Ring chromosome 22 is a rare cytogenetic anomaly. The aim of this study was to present a case carrying ring chromosome 22 in a 9-year-old Chinese girl with long face, thick eyebrows, large and low-set ears, mental retardation, severe speech delay, autistic disorders and talipes equinovarus (TEV). A chromosome analysis of the proband revealed a de novo 46,XX,r(22)(p13;q13) karyotype and the dele...

BACKGROUND: Although preterm infants born at 29 to 36 gestational weeks (GW) are at risk for developmental delay, they do not always benefit from systematic follow-up. Primary care physicians are then responsible for their developmental surveillance and need effective screening tests. This study aimed to determine whether the Ages and Stages Questionnaires (ASQ) at 12 and 24 months’ corrected a...

s d Mental health is essential for normal adolescent develpment. When adolescents’ mental health is compromised, dolescents, their families, their communities, and society ll bear a heavy burden. Mental health services are essential or adolescents having problems in this area. However, roblems related to financing continue to limit many adoescents’ access to mental health services in the United...

BACKGROUND The duration of untreated psychosis is determined by both patient and service related factors. Few studies have considered the geographical accessibility of services in relation to treatment delay in early psychosis. To address this, we investigated whether treatment delay is co-determined by straight-line distance to hospital based specialist services in a mainly rural mental health...

The epidermal nevus syndrome (ENS) is an uncommon neurocutaneous disorder in which epidermal nevi are found in association with congenital abnormalities of the brain, eye, and/or skeleton. The association of epidermal nevi and neurologic abnormalities was comprehensively described by Schimmelpenning in 1957. Pavone et al. (1991) identified a homogeneous variant of ENS with hemimegalencephaly, g...

Many people experience a traumatic event at least once in their lifetime. But only a fraction of those traumatized and in need of mental health care receive psychosocial care or treatment. This may be due to barriers people experience within the help-seeking process. The individual help-seeking process is consequently highly relevant for any mental health care for trauma survivors. Understandin...