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SELF-HELP GROUP FOR G.I.D. SUBJECTS a
semi-structured interview M. Molo, M. Gentile,
C. Crespi Ce.R.Ne Research Centre in
Neuroscience Turin Italy

• INTRODUCTION
• There is a growing interest in the evaluation of
  self-help groups.
• Research actually is concerned with many
  scenarious, including definition of evaluable
  outcomes and planning of studies for the
  identification of fundamental components of the
  intervention model used and cost efficacy
  analysis.
• This paper shows the experience of the
  Consultorio di Sessuologia at the Mauriziano
  Umberto I Hospital and in Ce.R.Ne (Turin- Italy)
  with the self-help group for G.I.D. subjects.
• THE AIM OF THE STUDY
• To investigate the role and the importance of the
  group during the cross-gender process and Real
  Life Test in subjects personal experience.
• THE SAMPLE
• Is composed of ten G.I.D. subjects regularly
  attending the meeting of the self-help group
  during the program for Sex Reassignment Surgery
  (SRS)
• Table 1. Socio-demographic and clinical features
  of the sample.

RESULTS Responders percentage
DISCUSSION

• SECTION n. 4 PROPOSALS
• All Subjects answered to this section putting
  attention on the issue of group social
  visibility.
• Subjects underline their need to increase group
  visibility in the hospital, also with logistic
  choices for example about the room dedicated to
  the group, day and time for group meetings in the
  week.
• Some subjects suggest specific meeting, once a
  mounth, for MtF and FtM people apart from common
  meeting to give more space in discussion to
  different aspects related to the two different
  forms of transexualism.
• Subjects underline its very difficult to start
  attending the group because new members can feel
  themselves inadequate and inhibit. Someone
  suggests to make obligatory the attendance for a
  brief period at the beginning and than let people
  free to decide about its group attendance
  telling with force that new members could stay
  without saying a word in the meeting only
  listening other people.

• SECTION n. 1 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
• All subjects underline the possibility to know
  and compare themselves with other transexual
  people as the most important fact of the group
  experience but not all with the same meaning.
• 3 subjects, in fact, underline diversities with
  other people rather than similarities in living
  their transexual condition.
• Interviewed people feel less understood as they
  show different opinions from the majority of the
  group.
• On the other side people attending the group
  felt more comprehension when they spoke about
  common social problems related with the
  transexual condition.
• Only one subject thinks the group never
  understood him. He refers, however, he always
  found psychologists listening and comprehension.
• SECTION n. 2 INTERPERSONAL RELATIOSHIP
• People attending the group agree in underlining
  that the atmosphere during group meetings changed
  each time depending on the emotional impact of
  the issues spoken about.
• In general subjects underline that, at the
  beginnig of their group meeting attendance, they
  felt a more tense atmophere but their perception
  on the atmosphere changed during the period they
  attended the group in a very positive way when
  each other knowledgment increased.
• To know each other seems to be a key factor in
  encourage a good atmosphere among group members.
• Another key factor seems to be the hopes of each
  person about group role in their lives. The more
  these hopes are clear, the more people feel a
  good atmosphere in the group.
• As Key factor in hinder a good atmosphere in the
  group subjects underline competition sometimes
  perceived among people and age difference in
  people attending.

• DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
• Results show self-help group experience as an
  important step for G.I.D. subjects in different
  fields.
• First of all self esteem and consciousness
  increase in subjects attending the group thanks
  to each other encouragement in facing
  difficulties related to Real Life Test period
  leading to SRS. Group also underlines and
  legitimates the possibility to be different
  subjects with different features even if with the
  same disease.
• A second important aspect seems to be
  relationship area. Group experience helps
  subjects in being more sure and hopeful in social
  relationship.
• Group helps also in increasing social skills and
  copying strategies.
• Last, the group helps subjects in developing a
  kind of social awareness making transexual
  people more consciusness about rights and duties
  and developing the need not to hide themselves.
  
• In conclusion self help group seems to be a
  usefull instrument to increase G.I.D. subjects
  quality of life during R.L.T. period.
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

• SECTION n. 1 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
• .Thinking at your experience in the group, what
  do you the most important aspects describing
  your attendance at the group?
• In which moments, during the period of your
  group attendance, did you feel more understood
  and accepted and in which less?
• SECTION n. 2 INTERPERSONAL RELATIOSHIP
• .How do you can describe the atmosphere founded
  among the people you met in the group in these
  months?
• Which aspects, in your opinion, contributed to
  improve a good atmosphere among the people
  attending the group and which contributed to
  hinder?
• SECTION n. 3 COMMENTS ON THE GROUP
• .How do you value in all the experience of the
  group about aims and methods?
• .Can you explain the group point of force and of
  weakness and why?
• SECTION n. 4 PROPOSALS