COVID-19 News and Its Association With the Mental Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Adults: Cross-sectional Study

Sexual and gender minority (SGM; people whose sexual orientation is not heterosexual or whose gender identity varies from what is traditionally associated with the sex assigned to them at birth) people experience high rates of trauma and substantial disparities in anxiety and posttraumatic stress di...

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Published in:JMIR public health and surveillance 2022-05, Vol.8 (5), p.e34710
Main Authors: Clark, Kristen D, Lunn, Mitchell R, Sherman, Athena D F, Bosley, Hannah G, Lubensky, Micah E, Obedin-Maliver, Juno, Dastur, Zubin, Flentje, Annesa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Anxiety
Anxiety disorders
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Education
Ethnicity
Exposure
Female
Gays & lesbians
Gender Identity
Health surveillance
Hispanic Americans
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Mental disorders
Mental Health
Mental health care
Middle Aged
Moving & housing expenses
Non-binary gender
Original Paper
Pandemics
Population
Post traumatic stress disorder
Public health
Sexual and Gender Minorities
Sexual Behavior - psychology
Sexual orientation
Transgender persons
United States - epidemiology
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Summary:Sexual and gender minority (SGM; people whose sexual orientation is not heterosexual or whose gender identity varies from what is traditionally associated with the sex assigned to them at birth) people experience high rates of trauma and substantial disparities in anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Exposure to traumatic stressors such as news related to COVID-19 may be associated with symptoms of anxiety and PTSD. This study aims to evaluate the relationship of COVID-19 news exposure with anxiety and PTSD symptoms in a sample of SGM adults in the United States. Data were collected between March 23 and August 2, 2020, from The PRIDE Study, a national longitudinal cohort study of SGM people. Regression analyses were used to analyze the relationship between self-reported news exposure and symptoms of anxiety using the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 and symptoms of COVID-19-related PTSD using the Impact of Events Scale-Revised. Our sample included a total of 3079 SGM participants. Each unit increase in COVID-19-related news exposure was associated with greater anxiety symptoms (odds ratio 1.77, 95% CI 1.63-1.93; P
ISSN:2369-2960
2369-2960
DOI:10.2196/34710