COVID-19 News and Its Association With the Mental Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Adults: Cross-sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sexual and gender minority (SGM; people whose sexual orientation is not heterosexual or whose gender identity varies from what is traditionally associated with the sex assigned to them at birth) people experience high rates of trauma and substantial disparities in anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Exposure to traumatic stressors such as news related to COVID-19 may be associated with symptoms of anxiety and PTSD.

Objective

This study aims to evaluate the relationship of COVID-19 news exposure with anxiety and PTSD symptoms in a sample of SGM adults in the United States.

Methods

Data were collected between March 23 and August 2, 2020, from The PRIDE Study, a national longitudinal cohort study of SGM people. Regression analyses were used to an

SUBMITTER: Clark KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9153913 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature