TY - JOUR PY - 2021// TI - Cumulative minority stress and suicide risk among LGBTQ youth JO - American journal of community psychology A1 - Green, Amy E. A1 - Price, Myeshia N. A1 - Dorison, Sam H. SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - Exposure to minority stress is the primary mechanism through which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth experience a greater risk for suicide. The current study examines the association of LGBTQ-based cumulative minority stress with suicide risk using online survey data collected from 39,126 LGBTQ youth ages 13-24 in the United States. Youth who reported four types of minority stress had nearly 12 times greater odds of attempting suicide compared to those who reported none. Transgender and nonbinary youth and American Indian/Alaskan Native youth had higher odds of reporting three or more minority stress experiences. The strong association of cumulative risk with attempted suicide and disproportionate exposure among marginalized members of the LGBTQ community highlight the need for suicide prevention to prioritize those at greatest risk and for research examining LGBTQ suicide risk to employ cumulative risk models.
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LA - en SN - 0091-0562 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12553 ID - ref1 ER -