NCT01184651

Tweens to Teens Project at Penn State

"Gender Development in Early Adolescence: Prenatal Hormones and Family Socialization"

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 188 (actual)
• Sponsor: Penn State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 10 Years – 13 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to help investigators to understand more about the development of characteristics related to being male or female (what is called gender development). The investigators will study girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) aged 10 to 13 to learn more about the girls' interests and activities, thoughts and feeling about being female, and family relationships. This will help investigators to understand the ways in which gender development is shaped by hormones and family relationships.

Detailed description

Interviewers will visit girls in their home when it is convenient for the family. Girls will answer questions about the things they do and are interested in, how they think and feel, and complete some cognitive tasks. Girls will also provide saliva so we can examine their hormones and determine the CAH gene mutation they have. Parents will also be asked to complete questionnaires about their own activities and interests and about their daughter's behavior. Shortly after the home visit, interviewers will telephone girls and their parents on several days and ask what the girls did during the day.

Conditions

• Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Questionnaires/Interviews	Girls answer questions about activities and interests, school, feelings about being a girl, stage of physical development, and family relationships during a home interview , provide saliva samples, and participate in phone interviews to answer questions about daily activities .
BEHAVIORAL	Questionnaires/Interviews	Parents complete questionnaires about their daughter's activities, interests, and behaviors, educational goals, family demographics and relationships, grades, diagnosis and treatment of her CAH, their own activities, interests, and thoughts and feelings about being male or female. Parents answer questions during phone interviews about their daughters daily activities.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-08-01
• Primary completion: 2013-07-01
• Completion: 2013-07-01
• First posted: 2010-08-19
• Last updated: 2018-01-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States