Long-Term Regret and Satisfaction With Decision Following Gender-Affirming Mastectomy.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

There has been increasing legislative interest in regulating gender-affirming surgery, in part due to the concern about decisional regret. The regret rate following gender-affirming surgery is thought to be approximately 1%; however, previous studies relied heavily on ad hoc instruments.

Objective

To evaluate long-term decisional regret and satisfaction with decision using validated instruments following gender-affirming mastectomy.

Design, setting, and participants

For this cross-sectional study, a survey of patient-reported outcomes was sent between February 1 and July 31, 2022, to patients who had undergone gender-affirming mastectomy at a US tertiary referral center between January 1, 1990, and February 29, 2020.

Exposure

Decisional regret and sa

SUBMITTER: Bruce L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10413215 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature