Increased risks for mental disorders among LGB individuals: cross-national evidence from the World Mental Health Surveys.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals, and LB women specifically, have an increased risk for psychiatric morbidity, theorized to result from stigma-based discrimination. To date, no study has investigated the mental health disparities between LGB and heterosexual AQ1individuals in a large cross-national population-based comparison. The current study addresses this gap by examining differences between LGB and heterosexual participants in 13 cross-national surveys, and by exploring whether these disparities were associated with country-level LGBT acceptance. Since lower social support has been suggested as a mediator of sexual orientation-based differences in psychiatric morbidity, our secondary aim was to examine whether mental health disparities were partially explai

SUBMITTER: Gmelin JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9636102 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature