Study of quality of life for transsexuals after hormonal and surgical reassignment

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• 作者：N. Parola ; M. Bonierbale ; A. Lemaire ; V. Aghababian ; A. Michel ; C. Lanç ; on
• 关键词：Quality of life ; Transsexuals ; Hormonal surgical sex reassignment ; Gender ; Personality
• 刊名：Sexologies
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：January-March 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：19
• 期：1
• 页码：24-28
• 全文大小：175 K

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Summary

Aim

The main objective of this work is to provide a more detailed assessment of the impact of surgical reassignment on the most important aspects of daily life for these patients. Our secondary objective was to establish the influence of various factors likely to have an impact on the quality of life (QoL), such as biological gender and the subject's personality.

Methods

A personality study was conducted using Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) so as to analyze two aspects of the personality (extraversion and neuroticism). Thirty-eight subjects who had undergone hormonal surgical reassignment were included in the study.

Results

The results show that gender reassignment surgery improves the QoL for transsexuals in several different important areas: most are satisfied of their sexual reassignment (28/30), their social (21/30) and sexual QoL (25/30) are improved. However, there are differences between male-to-female (MtF) and female-to-male (FtM) transsexuals in terms of QoL: FtM have a better social, professional, friendly lifestyles than MtF. Finally, the results of this study did not evidence any influence by certain aspects of the personality, such as extraversion and neuroticism, on the QoL for reassigned subjects.