Self-perception of quality of life in transgender population who attend a teaching and assistance center. Uruguay 2015.

Introduction and Objective The difficulty of accessibly to primary care for Trans population, is an aspect to be improve to ensure the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. The multidimensionality deprivation, identify this population as vulnerable having adverse consequences on their welfare and quality of life. The aim of this manuscript is to describe self-perception of quality of life in Transgender persons who are attending the service. Methodology 56 persons consulting service in the second semester of 2015 were included, the health questionnaire SF -36 (Ware and Sherbourne) (Spanish Version Alonso et al, 1995) was applied auto administrated prior informed consent. This questionnaire include eight health dimensions and gives results ranging from 0 to 100, from worst to best status. Results and Conclusions Physical functioning: 93.5 Role limitations due to physical health: 91.7 Role limitations due to emotional problems: 84 Energy/fatigue: 70.7 Emotional well-being 76.2 Social functioning: 87.5 Pain: 86.4 General health: 75.8 It was found that the general perception of quality of life is good, it would be interesting to compare these results with other populations with same followed longitudinally, which will give more conclusive results.