Randomised controlled trial of LGBTQ-affirmative cognitive-behavioural therapy for sexual minority women's minority stress, mental health and hazardous drinking: Project EQuIP protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Sexual minority women represent one of the highest-risk groups for hazardous drinking and comorbid mental health problems (eg, depression, anxiety). Research has identified cognitive (eg, expectations of rejection), affective (eg, emotion dysregulation) and behavioural (eg, avoidant coping) pathways through which minority stress (eg, stigma) places sexual minority women at disproportionate risk of hazardous drinking and comorbid depression/anxiety; yet no evidence-based interventions have been tested to address these pathways in this population. This article describes the design of Project EQuIP (Empowering Queer Identities in Psychotherapy), a randomised controlled trial of a transdiagnostic lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ)-affirmative cognitive-beha

SUBMITTER: Pachankis J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11877267 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature