Health, Homelessness Severity, and Substance Use among Sexual Minority Youth Experiencing Homelessness: A Comparison of Bisexual Versus Gay and Lesbian Youth. Issue 7 (1st September 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Health, Homelessness Severity, and Substance Use among Sexual Minority Youth Experiencing Homelessness: A Comparison of Bisexual Versus Gay and Lesbian Youth. Issue 7 (1st September 2020)
- Main Title:
- Health, Homelessness Severity, and Substance Use among Sexual Minority Youth Experiencing Homelessness: A Comparison of Bisexual Versus Gay and Lesbian Youth
- Authors:
- Siconolfi, Daniel
Tucker, Joan S.
Shadel, William G.
Seelam, Rachana
Golinelli, Daniela - Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and questioning (LGBQ) youth are overrepresented among youth experiencing homelessness (YEH), and health disparities among LGBQ youth are well-documented. LGBQ youth are typically aggregated as a single sexual minority group; however, research suggests that bisexual youth may have greater mental health, substance use, and physical health risks relative to their gay and lesbian peers. In a probability sample of LGBQ YEH in Los Angeles County (n = 183), we examined subgroup differences in homelessness severity, depression, physical health, and substance use, focusing on differences between bisexual and gay/lesbian youth due to the small subsample of questioning youth. Indicators of homelessness severity were standalone outcomes, and also were integrated as control variables with gender, age, race/ethnicity, and education in multivariable models. Bisexual youth were more likely to have become unaccompanied homeless persons as minors (OR = 4.35, 95% CI 1.85–10.23), and to have not recently utilized emergency shelters or transitional housing at least once in the past month (OR = 6.41; 95% CI 2.41–17.03). Bisexual youth were more likely to have probable depression (OR = 4.06, 95% CI 1.41–11.68). Among sexual minority YEH, bisexual youth may be at elevated risk for depression, in addition to more severe homelessness.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of sex research. Volume 57:Issue 7(2020)
- Journal:
- Journal of sex research
- Issue:
- Volume 57:Issue 7(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 57, Issue 7 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 57
- Issue:
- 7
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0057-0007-0000
- Page Start:
- 933
- Page End:
- 942
- Publication Date:
- 2020-09-01
- Subjects:
- Sexology -- Research -- Periodicals
Sex -- Periodicals
Psychiatry -- Periodicals
Sex
Psychiatry
306.705 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.jstor.org/journals/00224499.html ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hjsr20/54/2?nav=tocList ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/00224499.2019.1695723 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0022-4499
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