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Social functioning of women with Turner syndrome
Ilona Zadrożna
Abstract
Turner syndrome (TS) is a quite common (one in every 2500 live female births) human genetic disorder which affects only females. Females with TS lack all or part of one of two sex X chromosomes. The phenotype of TS women includes short stature, lack of sexual development and ovarian failure (which usually causes infertility), specific anatomic abnormalities and characteristic neurocognitive profile, which usually does not include mental retardation. The treatment of TS girls includes growth hormone and sex hormones therapy. The thesis concerns social functioning of women with Turner syndrome, focusing particularly on their family life (relations with parents, siblings, partner and children) and relations with others (friends, acquaintances, workmates and members of TS support organizations). The author also tries to find correlations between growth hormone treatment, sex hormones treatment, age of TS diagnosis, karyotype and social functioning of TS women. Researches indicate that generally women with TS show relatively good functioning in relations in family of origin (with parents and siblings) and in social environment (quite high professional activity, good functioning in relations with friends and acquaintances). Relations with parents/siblings are usually very close, but often show overprotective parents’/siblings’ attitude towards TS women (even in their adult life). Researches show also relatively weak functioning in relations in family of procreation (with partner and children): much more women than in general population has a problem with finding a proper partner and create a family.- Record ID
- UAMe9fb53785ae24279bd167b2281f8a32a
- Diploma type
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Author
- Title in Polish
- Funkcjonowanie społeczne kobiet z zespołem Turnera
- Title in English
- Social functioning of women with Turner syndrome
- Language
- pol (pl) Polish
- Certifying Unit
- Faculty of Educational Studies (SNs/WSE/FoES) [Not active]
- Discipline
- education / (social studies) / (social studies)
- Status
- Finished
- Year of creation
- 2010
- Start date
- 21-12-2010
- Defense Date
- 21-12-2010
- Title date
- 21-12-2010
- Supervisor
- URL
- http://hdl.handle.net/10593/764 Opening in a new tab
- Keywords in English
- Social functioning; Women; Turner syndrome
- Abstract in English
- Turner syndrome (TS) is a quite common (one in every 2500 live female births) human genetic disorder which affects only females. Females with TS lack all or part of one of two sex X chromosomes. The phenotype of TS women includes short stature, lack of sexual development and ovarian failure (which usually causes infertility), specific anatomic abnormalities and characteristic neurocognitive profile, which usually does not include mental retardation. The treatment of TS girls includes growth hormone and sex hormones therapy. The thesis concerns social functioning of women with Turner syndrome, focusing particularly on their family life (relations with parents, siblings, partner and children) and relations with others (friends, acquaintances, workmates and members of TS support organizations). The author also tries to find correlations between growth hormone treatment, sex hormones treatment, age of TS diagnosis, karyotype and social functioning of TS women. Researches indicate that generally women with TS show relatively good functioning in relations in family of origin (with parents and siblings) and in social environment (quite high professional activity, good functioning in relations with friends and acquaintances). Relations with parents/siblings are usually very close, but often show overprotective parents’/siblings’ attitude towards TS women (even in their adult life). Researches show also relatively weak functioning in relations in family of procreation (with partner and children): much more women than in general population has a problem with finding a proper partner and create a family.
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://researchportal.amu.edu.pl/info/phd/UAMe9fb53785ae24279bd167b2281f8a32a/
- URN
urn:amu-prod:UAMe9fb53785ae24279bd167b2281f8a32a