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Table 2 Prevalence of general health and mean of mental and physical health outcomes among different gender identity groups

From: Examining general, physical, and mental health disparities between transgender and cisgender adults in the U.S.

 

General Health

Mental Health

Physical Health

2020*

2021*

2022*

2023*

Overall*

2020**

2021**

2022**

2023**

Overall**

2020**

2021**

2022**

2023**

Overall**

Broad Classification

               

 Cisgender

85.78 (85.41, 86.15)

84.32 (84.01, 84.63)

83.07 (82.74, 83.40)

81.39 (81.04, 81.75)

83.62 (83.45, 83.79)

4.15 (0.0403)

4.49 (0.0358)

4.78 (0.0374)

4.73 (0.0398)

4.53 (0.0194)

3.12 (0.0384)

3.58 (0.0329)

4.08 (0.0369)

4.13 (0.0352)

3.72 (0.0181)

 Transgender

80.96 (75.46, 86.46)

74.76 (69.73, 79.78)

70.81 (66.71, 74.91)

63.89 (58.81, 68.98)

71.43 (68.74, 74.12)

10.41 (1.2003)

10.93 (0.6367)

12.85 (0.5641)

13.19 (0.6208)

12.05 (0.3961)

4.21 (0.5599)

6.02 (0.5817)

6.36 (0.3944)

6.37 (0.4273)

5.83 (0.2523)

Detailed Classification

               

 Cisgender

85.78 (85.41, 86.15)

84.32 (84.01, 84.63)

83.07 (82.74, 83.40)

81.39 (81.04, 81.75)

83.62 (83.45, 83.79)

4.15 (0.0403)

4.49 (0.0358)

4.78 (0.0374)

4.73 (0.0398)

4.53 (0.0194)

3.12 (0.0384)

3.58 (0.0329)

4.08 (0.0369)

4.13 (0.0352)

3.72 (0.0181)

 Male-to-Female

84.54 (78.40, 90.67)

72.42 (64.30, 80.55)

70.63 (63.84, 77.42)

66.43 (57.18, 75.69)

72.87 (68.66, 77.07)

8.88 (1.1075)

9.59 (1.1266)

12.41 (0.9347)

14.03 (1.2841)

11.57 (0.6326)

4.10 (0.8102)

5.52 (0.8851)

5.81 (0.6923)

5.37 (0.7084)

5.20 (0.3878)

 Female-to-Male

82.32 (71.48, 93.16)

79.92 (71.84, 88.01)

75.02 (67.78, 82.26)

66.13 (56.63, 75.63)

75.28 (70.20, 80.37)

8.98 (2.4279)

10.99 (1.2924)

11.44 (1.0137)

10.09 (0.9993)

10.32 (0.8156)

3.99 (1.0512)

5.05 (0.8850)

5.77 (0.6795)

7.24 (0.8227)

5.60 (0.4885)

 Gender Nonconforming

74.94 (65.53, 84.34)

72.17 (63.31, 81.03)

67.44 (60.44, 74.44)

60.73 (52.90, 68.55)

67.04 (62.75, 71.33)

14.14 (1.5695)

11.86 (0.8971)

14.35 (0.9242)

14.63 (0.8472)

13.91 (0.5097)

4.63 (0.9046)

7.19 (1.0714)

7.28 (0.6632)

6.48 (0.6715)

6.53 (0.4095)

  1. * Indicates the weighted percentage (95% confidence interval). **Indicates the mean (standard error)
  2. General Health: Assessed by the question, ‘Would you say that in general, your health is:’ with responses ‘Excellent,’ ‘Very good,’ ‘Good,’ ‘Fair,’ and ‘Poor.’ For analysis, ‘Excellent,’ Very good,’ and ‘Good’ were grouped as ‘Good,’ and ‘Fair’ and ‘Poor’ as ‘Poor’
  3. Mental Health: Measured by ‘For how many days during the past 30 days was your mental health not good?’ including stress, depression, and emotional problems. Responses were ‘none’ or the number of days
  4. Physical Health: Measured by ‘For how many days during the past 30 days was your physical health not good?’ including illness and injury. Responses were ‘none’ or the number of days
  5. For analysis, none was recorded as zero days. Both mental and physical health were treated as count variables, indicating the number of days health was not good in the past 30 days
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International Journal for Equity in Health

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