Transgender Therapeutic Support Groups

NCT04217707 · Status: WITHDRAWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2022-07-05

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Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Adults

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Pre- and Post-Surgical Transgender Therapeutic Support Group

Participants will be patients drawn from already-existing therapeutic support groups for transgender patients who are hoping to undergo or have undergone gender-affirming surgeries. Participants will be assured that there will be no changes to their care or decisions about their surgeries if they elect not to participate in the research portion of the groups, but would still like to attend groups as a non-research participant. Prior to their first group session, participants will be arrive early to go over consent again and allow participants to sign the consent form and fill out baseline measures of the outcomes of interest. Following this, research participants will participate in the groups as usual, and after each of their first 8 attended sessions, will be asked to fill out outcomes of interest again. Length of time for them to attend 8 sessions will be capped at 6 months, and participants will be asked to fill out measures again at six months following their enrollment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Denver Health and Hospital Authority

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-01-31
Primary Completion
2023-12-31
Completion
2023-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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