Quality of life 15 years after sex reassignment surgery for transsexualism

Kuhn, Annette; Bodmer, Christine; Stadlmayr, Werner; Kuhn, Peter; Mueller, Michael D; Birkhäuser, Martin (2009). Quality of life 15 years after sex reassignment surgery for transsexualism. Fertility and sterility, 92(5), 1685-1689.e3. New York, N.Y.: Elsevier 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.08.126

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OBJECTIVE: To evaluate quality of life and patients' satisfaction in transsexual patients (TS) after sex reassignment operation compared with healthy controls. DESIGN: A case-control study. SETTING: A tertiary referral center. PATIENT(S): Patients after sex reassignment operation were compared with a similar group of healthy controls in respect to quality of life and general satisfaction. INTERVENTION(S): For quality of life we used the King's Health Questionnaire, which was distributed to the patients and to the control group. Visual analogue scale was used for the determination of satisfaction. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Main outcome measures were quality of life and satisfaction. RESULT(S): Fifty-five transsexuals participated in this study. Fifty-two were male-to-female and 3 female-to-male. Quality of life as determined by the King's Health Questionnaire was significantly lower in general health, personal, physical and role limitations. Patients' satisfaction was significantly lower compared with controls. Emotions, sleep, and incontinence impact as well as symptom severity is similar to controls. Overall satisfaction was statistically significant lower in TS compared with controls. CONCLUSION(S): Fifteen years after sex reassignment operation quality of life is lower in the domains general health, role limitation, physical limitation, and personal limitation.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Gynaecology, Paediatrics and Endocrinology (DFKE) > Clinic of Gynaecology
UniBE Contributor:	Kuhn, Annette, Stadlmayr, Werner, Mueller, Michael, Birkhäuser, Martin
ISSN:	0015-0282
ISBN:	18990387
Publisher:	Elsevier
Language:	English
Submitter:	Factscience Import
Date Deposited:	04 Oct 2013 15:04
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:19
Publisher DOI:	10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.08.126
PubMed ID:	18990387
Web of Science ID:	000271710200029
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/27860 (FactScience: 112981)