Sexual Orientation and Exposure to Close Others' Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Sexual minority young adults experience disproportionately high rates of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITB), including suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). While exposure to close others' SITB (eg, a friend or family member's suicide attempt) is a known risk factor for SITB, its role in sexual orientation disparities in SITB remains underexplored.

Objective

To examine whether exposure to close others' SITB is associated with sexual orientation disparities in SITB.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study assessed data from 2 nationally representative cohorts: the Swedish Pathways to Longitudinally Understanding Stress (PLUS) study (2023) and the Scottish Well-being Study ([SWS] conducted 2015-2018). T

SUBMITTER: Clark KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12423855 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature