Mental health in sexual minorities: Recent indicators, trends, and their relationships to place in North America and Europe
Mental health in sexual minorities: Recent indicators, trends, and their relationships to place in North America and Europe
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DOI：
10.1016/j.healthplace.2009.05.003
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发表时间：
2009-12-01
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影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Lewis, Nathaniel M.
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作者：
Lewis, Nathaniel M.
这项荟萃分析包含了12个国家的成人研究和16个州/地区的关于性和心理健康的青年研究，发现性少数群体——可能是地方偶然性少数群体压力的结果——比异性恋群体更频繁地经历抑郁、焦虑和自杀念头等心理健康问题。通过调查结果中的地理差异，例如英国心理健康状况不佳的比率较高，荷兰同性恋和异性恋之间的巨大差异，佛蒙特州和不列颠哥伦比亚省的结果和风险因素的比率较低但有所改善，本研究断言，政策制度，健康规划以及性少数群体在地方的构建方式都有助于他们的心理健康。2009爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
This meta-analysis featuring 12 national adult studies and 16 state/regional youth studies of sexuality and mental health finds that sexual minorities-as a likely consequence of place-contingent minority stress-experience mental health outcomes Such as depression, anxiety, and suicide ideation much more frequently than their heterosexual counterparts. By interrogating the geographic variations in the findings, such as high rates of poor mental health outcomes in the United Kingdom, large gay-heterosexual disparities in the Netherlands, and lower and improving rates of both outcomes and risk factors in Vermont and British Columbia, this study asserts that policy regimes, health programming, and the ways in which sexual minorities are constructed in places all contribute to their mental health. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.