Stopped: Study unable to be conducted due to COVID.
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.
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Well-Being
Timeframe: Up to 6 months
Broad mental health symptoms
Timeframe: Up to 6 months
Perceived social support
Timeframe: Up to 6 months