在大流行期间,智利的LGBT+一年级大学生心理健康问题的差异
Marcelo A Crockett1,2, Vania Martínez-Nahuel3,4,5, Scarlett Mac-Ginty6,7
1Escuela de Salud Pública, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
|May 31, 2024
概括
智利的第一年大学生认为自己是女同性恋,男同性恋,双性恋,跨性别者和其他性和性别少数群体 (LGBT+) 报告了更高的心理健康问题率. 这些发现突出了差异,并为针对LGBT+学生福祉的有针对性的干预提供了信息.
科学领域:
- 心理健康研究 心理健康研究
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
背景情况:
- COVID-19大流行影响了全球心理健康,特别是在脆弱的学生群体中.
- 性和性别少数群体经常面临独特的压力因素,导致心理健康差异.
研究的目的:
- 调查智利大学一年级学生在疫情期间基于性取向和性别认同的心理健康问题的普遍性.
- 确定女同性恋,男同性恋,双性恋,跨性别者和其他性和性别少数群体 (LGBT+) 学生所面临的具体心理健康挑战.
主要方法:
- 作为世界心理健康 - 国际大学生倡议的一部分,对智利7213名大学一年级学生 (2020-2021) 进行了一项横截面的在线调查.
- 该调查评估了一生和12个月的大型抑郁症,焦虑症,双相情感障碍,物质依赖,自我伤害和自杀风险的流行率.
- 后勤和多项后勤回归模型被用来分析心理健康问题的普遍性差异,根据性取向和性别认同.
主要成果:
- 在84.1%至98%的LGBT+学生中,至少有一次终身心理健康问题的查结果呈阳性.
- 与异性恋学生相比,非异性恋学生 (OR 1.25-7.00) 和跨性别和性别不符合学生 (OR 1.72-5.81) 的终身心理健康问题几率相对异性恋学生和 cisgender 学生要高得多.
- 在12个月的心理健康问题患病率方面也观察到类似的差异.
结论:
- 在智利的LGBT+大学生中存在心理健康问题的严重差异,反映了全球趋势.
- 这些发现强调了对高等教育中的LGBT+学生进行量身定制的心理健康干预和支持系统的需要.
- 该研究为制定有针对性的战略提供了关键数据,以改善这一群体的心理健康结果.
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