Gender and Sexual Identities Predicting Patterns of Co-occurring Health Risks Among Sexual Minority Youth: a Latent Class Analysis Approach.

Prevention Science : the Official Journal of the Society for Prevention Research
Ankur SrivastavaJeremy T Goldbach

Abstract

Behavioral health disparities (e.g., substance use, mental health) exist for gender nonconforming (GNC) and sexual minority youth; however, there is limited knowledge on disparities that may be unique among youth who identify as both a sexual and gender minority. This study utilized a diverse sample of GNC and cisgender sexual minority youth seeking crisis services to examine co-occurrence of behavioral health outcomes. Surveys were administered with youth (aged 12-24, N = 592), and latent class analyses were applied. Two latent class regression models were conducted to examine how gender and sexual identity separately (independent effect; Model 1) and configurations of gender and sexual identity (Model 2) predicted class membership. Analyses resulted in a four-class solution: High All (17.6%), High Substance Use and Moderate Mental Health (10.6%), Low All (20.1%), and High Suicide and High Mental Health (51.7%). In our first model, youth who identified as GNC had 2.11 higher odds of being in the High Suicide and High Mental Health class compared to the Low All class; however, sexual identity was not a significant predictor. In the second model, individuals identifying as GNC gay or lesbian or GNC pansexual had 1.95 and 2.57 hi...Continue Reading

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Dec 9, 2020·The Journal of Adolescent Health : Official Publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine·Lindsay Till HoytNeshat Yazdani
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