Sexual Orientation and Suicide Attempt Disparities Among US Adolescents:
2009–2017
Sexual minority adolescents face mental health disparities relative to
heterosexual adolescents. This study from The Official Journal of American
Pediatrics evaluated temporal changes in US adolescent reported sexual
orientation and suicide attempts by sexual orientation. Researchers used
Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance data from six states that collected data
on sexual orientation identity and four states that collected data on sex of
sexual contacts continuously between 2009 and 2017. Read here