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The mental health age gradient by gender identity
Samuel Mann1, Megan S Schuler2, Annaliese Paulson3
1RAND, 1200 S Hayes St, VA, 22202, Arlington, USA. mann@rand.org.
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Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) 2017–2022 we estimated adjusted and unadjusted differences in self-reported number of poor mental health days (past month) between gender minority (GM) and cisgender adults. We document that the disparity is largest among younger individuals. Among 18- to 23-year-olds, GM adults report on average 14.5 days of poor mental health, compared to 6.3 days for cisgender individuals, yielding an unadjusted disparity of 8.2 days [95% CI: 7.15, 9.24]. This disparity decreases with age – among people over the age of 73, the observed difference was 1.7 days [95% CI: 0.13, 3.27].
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