Quality of Life and Mental Health of Chinese Sexual and Gender Minority Women and Cisgender Heterosexual Women: Cross-sectional Survey and Mediation Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health-related research on sexual minority populations in China is lacking, and research on sexual and gender minority women (SGMW, including transgender women and persons of other gender identities assigned female at birth of all sexual orientations, and cisgender women with nonheterosexual orientations) is even less. Currently, there are limited surveys related to mental health in Chinese SGMW, but there are no studies on their quality of life (QOL), no studies comparing the QOL of SGMW with that of cisgender heterosexual women (CHW), and no studies on the relationship between sexual identity and the QOL as well as associated mental health variables.

Objective

This study aims to evaluate the QOL and mental health in a diverse sample of Chinese women and make com

SUBMITTER: Wu C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9996424 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature