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Esmaiel Shirdel Havar & Ramezan Hassanzadeh Mohammad Moshkani Azam Kaboosi
Kamran Yasrebi Islamic Azad University Islamic Azad University Payame Noor University
Islamic Azad University, Sari Branch, Tehran, Behshahr Branch,
Tonekabon Branch, Iran Iran Iran Iran
The present study aims at surveying the rate of prevalence of comorbid psychiatric
and personality disorders among the patients who suffer from Gender Identity Disorder
(GID). The research sample includes 108 participants from the city of Gorgan in northern
Iran (62 people who converted from male-to-female and 46 individuals converted from
female-to-male) who have GID (ones who underwent surgical procedures to change
their sex) This was conducted through adoption of Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory
(MCMI-III) and Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) Axis I Disorders (SCID-I). Analysis of results indicated
that the most frequent personality disorders were Depressive personality disorder and
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder. Furthermore, the maximum prevalence
rates of comorbid psychiatric disorders were seen as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD), Major Depression Disorder (MDD), Specific Phobia (SP), Body Dysmorphic
Disorder (BDD), and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Similarly, there was
a significant difference between the two groups of conversions: male-to-female and
female-to-male transsexualism in terms of rate of personality disorder prevalence. Axis
I and II disorders were highly prevalent among patients with GID