The Epidemiology of Transsexualism in Iran
| Autor: | Amir-Hossein Jalali, Mehrdad Eftekhar, Mojgan Taban Ba, Khadijeh Mohseninia-Omrani Ba, Masoud Ahmadzad-Asl, Kaveh Alavi, Mph Morteza Naserbakht Md |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health. 15:83-93 |
| ISSN: | 1935-9713 1935-9705 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/19359705.2011.530580 |
| Popis: | Researchers on Gender Identity Disorder (GID) from different countries have reported an increase in the prevalence of GID during the last few decades, as well as changes in the sex ratio of male to female (MTF) and female to male (FTM) GIDs. The aim of this article is to estimate the prevalence and sex ratio of GID in Iran during 2002 to 2009. In a descriptive cross-sectional study, we reviewed all psychiatric records of subjects referred to the Tehran Psychiatric Institute (TPI) from April 2002 to March 2009 with a diagnosis of GID by two independent reviewers. The prevalence of GID in this time period was calculated based on the ratio of the total number of identified subjects to the total population aged between 15 and 44 years old. Two hundred eighty-one GID subjects with mean age (±2SE) at first visit 24.74 ± 0.63 were studied. The prevalence of MTF and FTM GID was calculated as 1:145,000 and 1:136,000, respectively, and the total prevalence as 1:141,000. MTF and FTM GID were reported in 138 (49.1%) ... |
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