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- Title
The Quality of Life in Sexual Identity Disorder in Yazd, 2016.
- Authors
Mohammad Talebpour Ardekani
- Abstract
Objective: Sexual identity is a psychological state that represents the sense of individuals about their being male or female. Transsexual disorders are the tendencies towards continual insistence on belonging to the opposite sex and being excessively sad for the present sex attributed. Considering this fact, as transsexuality generally decreases the life quality and general health of people, the researchers of this paper decided to conduct a research to increase the general knowledge levels of people about this disorder as an illness not a deviation to support the afflicted people in achieving their citizenship rights and consequently raise the life quality of these people and their families. Methods and materials: In this cross-sectional study, 23 transsexual subjects who had attended the forensic medicine center in the city of Yazd in 2016 were enrolled, and their demographic factors, blood group, and life quality were investigated using a researcher-made questionnaire, and according to the SF-36 questionnaires distributed among them. Results: In this study, 60.9% of the sample were male and 39.1% of it were female. The mean age of the subjects were 24 ± 4.96 years. From among all patients, 8 patients (78.3%) were single. The blood groups were determined to be A-, B-, AB-, O-, A+, B+, AB+, and O+ in 4.5%, 4.5%, 4.5%, 4.5%, 4.5%, 18.2%, 9.1%, and 40.9% for the subjects, respectively. The somatic, environmental, psychiatric, social and total life quality scores were 23.5 (P = 0.921), 20.3 (P=0/52), 12.7 (P = 0.729), 7.1 (P = 0.749), and 4/91 (P = 0.509), respectively. Conclusion: In general, the research results indicated that between the mean degree of the men's life quality and that of women there was no significant difference. The age of the sample members had no significant correlation with their life quality. The rate of the suicide history was determined to be 56.5% for the study samples. The mean BMI index of the samples was below that of the normal population. The most prevalent blood group in the study was O, and it had a significant correlation with the disorder. The highest life quality was attributed to the aspect of body health, and the lowest one was considered for the general health.
- Subjects
YAZD (Iran); SEXUAL dysfunction; QUALITY of life; BLOOD groups; IDENTITY (Psychology); FORENSIC medicine
- Publication
Iranian Journal of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences / Progress in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, 2018, p164
- ISSN
1735-8639
- Publication type
Article