The Relationship between Serving as a Mentor and Depressive Symptoms among Sexual Minority Men in the MACS Healthy Aging Study.

Autor:	Chandran A; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland., Haberlen S; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland., Ware D; Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC., Meanley S; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania., Brennan-Ing M; Brookdale Center for Health Aging, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, New York., Brown AL; Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania., Teplin LA; Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois., Egan JE; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania., Mimiaga MJ; University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California., Friedman MR; Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania., Plankey M; Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity [Psychol Sex Orientat Gend Divers] 2024 Jun; Vol. 11 (2), pp. 328-336. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Sep 29.
DOI:	10.1037/sgd0000605
Abstrakt:	Sexual minority men (SMM) in the US are twice as likely to experience mental health challenges, including depressive symptoms, compared with their heterosexual counterparts. Having a like-mentor, or a sexual minority mentor, is associated with improved mental well-being among SMM mentees. However, few studies have explored the potential benefits to mentors. Using confirmatory factor analysis, we calculated a perceptions of mentoring score that encompasses experiences and beliefs regarding mentoring of SMM from the Healthy Aging Substudy of the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study. We used a generalized estimating equations model to assess associations between perceptions of mentoring and clinically significant depressive symptoms adjusted for key covariates; models were also stratified by HIV serostatus. Among 1,246 men aged 40+ years, the strongest agreement was with the statement "I have encouraged people to be proud of their sexual orientation," for which 770 individuals (72%) indicated "Agree" or "Strongly Agree." Each unit increase in the mean perceptions of mentoring score was associated with 8% decreased odds of having clinically significant depressive symptoms (adjusted odds ratio: 0.92; 95% CI: 0.85-0.99). We show that SMM reported like-mentoring experiences and had positive mentoring beliefs, and that these were associated with a decreased odds of having depressive symptoms. Encouraging SMM to serve as like-mentors could be a way to counter depressive symptoms among this key population. There is a need for increased research regarding how mentoring programs can best be designed to benefit sexual minority mentees and mentors. Competing Interests: Author Disclosures The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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