Mental health in sexual minorities: recent indicators, trends, and their relationships to place in North America and Europe
Mental health in sexual minorities: recent indicators, trends, and their relationships to place in North America and Europe
This meta-analysis featuring 12 national adult studies and 16 state/regional youth studies of sexuality and mental health finds that sexual minorities--as a likely consequence of place-contingent minority stress--experience mental health outcomes such as depression, anxiety, and suicide ideation much more frequently than their heterosexual counterparts. By interrogating the geographic variations in the findings, such as high rates of poor mental health outcomes in the United Kingdom, large gay-heterosexual disparities in the Netherlands, and lower and improving rates of both outcomes and risk factors in Vermont and British Columbia, this study asserts that policy regimes, health programming, and the ways in which sexual minorities are constructed in places all contribute to their mental health.
1029-1045
Lewis, Nathaniel M.
f0218afb-51ea-4141-a1e9-d031d8b98645
December 2009
Lewis, Nathaniel M.
f0218afb-51ea-4141-a1e9-d031d8b98645
Abstract
This meta-analysis featuring 12 national adult studies and 16 state/regional youth studies of sexuality and mental health finds that sexual minorities--as a likely consequence of place-contingent minority stress--experience mental health outcomes such as depression, anxiety, and suicide ideation much more frequently than their heterosexual counterparts. By interrogating the geographic variations in the findings, such as high rates of poor mental health outcomes in the United Kingdom, large gay-heterosexual disparities in the Netherlands, and lower and improving rates of both outcomes and risk factors in Vermont and British Columbia, this study asserts that policy regimes, health programming, and the ways in which sexual minorities are constructed in places all contribute to their mental health.
This record has no associated files available for download.
More information
Accepted/In Press date: 7 April 2009
e-pub ahead of print date: 15 May 2009
Published date: December 2009
Organisations:
Population, Health & Wellbeing (PHeW)
Identifiers
Local EPrints ID: 377575
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/377575
ISSN: 1353-8292
PURE UUID: da85038b-2ca0-48e6-a192-4db59df1586a
Catalogue record
Date deposited: 09 Jun 2015 12:58
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 20:06
Export record
Altmetrics
Contributors
Author:
Nathaniel M. Lewis
Download statistics
Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.
View more statistics