Do it yourself

Many studies require determination of the pubertal stage of child participants. The "tried and true" method for this, of course, is physician assessment. Increasingly, however, we are seeing studies in which children themselves are asked to rate their pubertal status using some sort of questionnaire. There have been a number of studies comparing self- vs physician-assessed pubertal status, but these have not included hormonal indicators of puberty.

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