title: The frequency of personality disorders in patients with gender identity disorder.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Co-morbid psychiatric disorders affect prognosis, psychosocial adjustment and post-surgery satisfaction in patients with gender identity disorder. In this paper, we assessed the frequency of personality disorders in Iranian GID patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seventy- three patients requesting sex reassignment surgery (SRS) were recruited for this crosssectional study. Of the participants, 57.5% were biologically male and 42.5% were biologically female. They were assessed through the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory II (MCMI- II).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The frequency of personality disorders was 81.4%. The most frequent personality disorder was narcissistic personality disorder (57.1%) and the least was borderline personality disorder. The average number of diagnoses was 3.00 per patient.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings of this study revealed that the prevalence of personality disorders was higher among the participants, and the most frequent personality disorder was narcissistic personality disorder (57.1%), and borderline personality disorder was less common among the studied patients.
authors: 1. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Shahid- Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. mazaheri.azadeh@yahoo.com.
authors: Azadeh Mazaheri
authors: AM
authors: Meybodi
authors: 2. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Mental Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. hajebi.ahmad@gmail.com.
authors: Ahmad
authors: A
authors: Hajebi
authors: 3. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. draghj@yahoo.com.
authors: Atefeh Ghanbari
authors: AG
authors: Jolfaei
keywords: Gender identity disorder; Personality disorder