Trauma Symptoms, Minority Stress, and Substance Use: Implications for Trauma Treatment in Sexual and Gender Minority Communities.

ABSTRACT: Posttraumatic stress symptoms are very high among sexual and/or gender minority (SGM) people. Development and testing of trauma interventions with SGM people is needed, but first we need to understand who among SGM people are at greatest risk of posttraumatic stress symptoms, how minority stress may contribute, and the frequency of substance use comorbidity with significant posttraumatic stress symptoms among SGM people. General linear models and logistic regressions were used to examine demographic differences, minority stress, and substance use related to posttraumatic stress symptoms among a national sample of SGM people (N = 4,589, M _age = 32.1, 55% cisgender). All gender groups had greater posttraumatic stress symptoms than the reference group of cisgen

SUBMITTER: Flentje A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12499634 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature