Violence Victimization, Substance Use Disparities, and Gender-Nonconforming Youth.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Exposure to violence victimization may help explain disparities of substance use among gender-nonconforming youth (i.e., those whose gender expression differs from societal expectations).

Methods

In 2015, three large urban school districts (2 in California and 1 in Florida) conducted a Youth Risk Behavior Survey that included the assessment of gender expression among a racially/ethnically diverse population-based sample of 6,082 high school students. Five categories of violence victimization were assessed (felt unsafe at school, threatened or injured with a weapon at school, bullied at school, electronically bullied, and forced sexual intercourse). In 2019, the effect of violence victimization on substance use disparities was examined by calculating sex-stratifi

SUBMITTER: Lowry R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7885263 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature