Mental Health Inequities among Transgender People in Aotearoa New Zealand: Findings from the Counting Ourselves Survey.

ABSTRACT: There has been little international research looking at differences in mental health across different age groups. This study examines mental health inequities between transgender people and the Aotearoa/New Zealand general population from youth to older adulthood. The 2018 Counting Ourselves survey (N = 1178) assessed participants' mental health using the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) and diagnoses of depression and anxiety disorders, questions that were the same as those used in the New Zealand Health Survey. Our results showed significant mean score differences for transgender people on K10, and these differences were almost two standard deviations higher than the general population (Cohen's d = 1.87). The effect size differences, however, decreased from youth to older adult

SUBMITTER: Tan KKH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7216046 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature