The effect of education based on empowerment model on anxiety and quality of life among transsexual clients undergoing hormone therapy

The main objective of the project: To determine the effect of empowerment based education on the anxiety and quality of life of transgender patients under hormone therapy

Clinical trials with community based and pragmatic control group, with parallel groups, without blindness, randomized

This study is based on an empowerment model based education, conducted at the Tehran Welfare Center. It is based on education based on the empowerment model (perception of threat, problem solving, learning participation, and evaluation) with the presence of clients in the form of training sessions, question and answer, and group discussion in 5 axes (definition of the nature of the disease, factors affecting the incidence of sexual illness and its severity , The ways of diagnosis and treatment, the long process of treatment, and the problems surrounding it), with emphasis on drug therapy and the impact of the treatment process and complications.

Entry requirements: • Having a diagnosis of transient disorder based on DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for sexual dysfunction • The absence of diagnosed psychological illness • Not having physiological disorders of the genitalia • Being at least 18 years old and up to 35 years (ie, the client is within the adult age range). • At least 6 months of taking hormonal medications

In this research, the control group receives the routine training, and the intervention in test group is based on the training based on the empowerment model (threat perception, problem solving, training participation and evaluation) which is conducted by training sessions, question and answer and group discussion

Anxiety; quality of life

The Researcher starts sampling after referring to the welfare organization and passing the administrative procedures and observing the ethics principles and obtaining written consent. Sampling is done by continuous sampling. At first, a list of qualified applicants is provided, starting with the latest case file, and if they are eligible, they are entered in the list to complete the required sample size. After completing the allocation list of the samples in two groups, the control group and the intervention group are randomly assigned using four blocks design. Thus, the letter A is considered for the intervention group and the letter B is considered for the control group. Then, all the permutation combinations of the letters A, A and B, B, six different combinations, are written (AABB for digit 1, ABBA for digit 2 ...), and from digits 1 to 6 a digit is randomly selected (for example, if The digit 2 was chosen. The concept is that the first person in the experimental group is the next two in the control group and the fourth in the test group), and we continue this until the sample size is completed.