Transgender Therapeutic Support Groups

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Conditions studied: Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Adults

In brief

This study seeks to explore the effects for transgender people undergoing surgical interventions of participating in pre/post-surgical therapeutic support groups in order to assess the value of adding these programs to hospital systems that are offering gender-affirming surgeries. Participation in either therapeutic support group is expected to increase subjective well-being, increase perceived social support, and decrease clinically significant mental health symptoms compared to participants' baseline scores. It is expected that perceived social support will mediate the relation between group participation and improved subject well-being and mental health scores. In addition, participation in the post-surgical therapeutic support group is expected to reduce the average number of emergency department visits for participants in the group compared with transgender patients, post-gender-affirming surgery, in the hospital as a whole.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04217707

Run by

Denver Health and Hospital Authority

People needed

0

Starts

2023-01-01

Expected to finish

2023-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2022-07-05

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Transgender and gender non-conforming adults who take part in therapeutic support groups aimed at patients prior to and after gender-affirming surgical interventions.

You may not qualify if…

• Age < 18
• Substance abuse as primary presenting problem and unable to maintain sobriety for group
• Severe mental illness with acute psychosis or paranoia
• Patients with a very high need for crisis management
• Patients with diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder
• Patients with severe cognitive impairments.

Where it is running

• Denver Health and Hospital Authority — Denver, Colorado, United States

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