Differences in mental health problems in LGBT+ first year college students in Chile during the pandemic.

Autor: Crockett MA; Escuela de Salud Pública, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.; Millennium Nucleus to Improve the Mental Health of Adolescents and Youths (Imhay), Santiago, Chile., Martínez-Nahuel V; Millennium Nucleus to Improve the Mental Health of Adolescents and Youths (Imhay), Santiago, Chile. vmartinezn@uchile.cl.; Centro de Medicina Reproductiva y Desarrollo Integral del Adolescente (CEMERA), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. vmartinezn@uchile.cl.; Millennium Institute for Research in Depression and Personality (MIDAP), Santiago, Chile. vmartinezn@uchile.cl., Mac-Ginty S; Millennium Nucleus to Improve the Mental Health of Adolescents and Youths (Imhay), Santiago, Chile. scarlett.macginty@kcl.ac.uk.; Department of Health Service & Population Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK. scarlett.macginty@kcl.ac.uk., Núñez D; Millennium Nucleus to Improve the Mental Health of Adolescents and Youths (Imhay), Santiago, Chile.; Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Cognitivas, Faculty of Psychology, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile., Langer ÁI; Millennium Nucleus to Improve the Mental Health of Adolescents and Youths (Imhay), Santiago, Chile.; Facultad de Psicología y Humanidades, Universidad San Sebastián, Valdivia, Chile., Gaete J; Millennium Nucleus to Improve the Mental Health of Adolescents and Youths (Imhay), Santiago, Chile.; Facultad de Educación, Universidad de los Andes. Centro de Investigación en Salud Mental Estudiantil (ISME), Santiago, Chile.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology [Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol] 2024 Dec; Vol. 59 (12), pp. 2339-2349. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 31.
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-024-02683-5
Abstrakt: Purpose: To examine the differences in mental health problems by sexual orientation and gender identity in first-year university students in Chile during the pandemic.
Methods: 7,213 first-year students aged 18 years and older from five universities participated as part of the World Mental Health - International College Student initiative in Chile. Students completed an online self-report survey between 2020 and 2021 that included measures of lifetime and 12-month major depressive episode, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, bipolar disorder, drug abuse/dependence, alcohol dependence, non-suicidal self-injuries, and suicidal risk. Prevalence of mental health problems were estimated and the differences by sexual orientation and gender identity were examined using logistic and multinomial logistic regression models.
Results: Between 84.1% and 98% of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and other sexual and gender minority (LGBT+) students screened positive for at least one lifetime mental health problem and between 67.6% and 90.6% for two or more problems. For most outcomes, non-heterosexual (Odds Ratio [OR] between 1.25 and 7.00) and trans and gender nonconforming students (OR between 1.72 and 5.81) had significantly higher odds of positive screening for lifetime mental health problems than heterosexual and cisgender students, respectively. Similar results were observed for 12-month mental health problems.
Conclusion: The results show differences in the prevalence of mental health problems in LGBT+ university students in Chile, which are consistent with those found in other countries. These results may be useful for planning interventions to improve the mental health of LGBT+ students.
(© 2024. The Author(s).)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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