The authors used a population-representative sample and health administrative data to quantify suicide-related behavior leading acute care or deaths across self-identified heterosexual, gay/lesbian, bisexual individuals.Data from population-based survey (N=123,995) were linked (2002-2019), differences in time events sexual orientations examined using Cox proportional hazards regression.The crude incidence rates of per 100,000 person-years 224.7 for heterosexuals, 664.7 gay/lesbian...

Abstract Background There is growing evidence that lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adults experience more sleep problems than the general population. As LGB individuals a significantly greater risk of family rejection low support, our study investigates role support as potential determinant over prolonged period, whether friend (i.e. chosen family) can mitigate effect support. Given importance on mental physical health, results may help shed light persistent health disparities across sexual...

Legalization of recreational cannabis in Ontario included the legalization flower and herbs (Phase 1, October 2018), was followed by deregulation retailers sales edibles 2, February 2020). Research on impact acute care utilization is nascet; no research has investigated potential age, gender, geographically vulnerable subgroup effects. Residents living Northern not only have higher levels substance use problems, but also inadequate access to primary healthcare. Our study Ontario's policy...

Background News media coverage of antimask protests, COVID-19 conspiracies, and pandemic politicization has overemphasized extreme views but done little to represent the general public. Investigating public’s response various restrictions can provide a more balanced assessment current views, allowing policy makers craft better public health messages in anticipation poor reactions controversial restrictions. Objective Using data from social media, this infoveillance study aims understand...

Background There have been no studies examining how neighbourhood deprivation modifies the effects of sexual minority status on suicide-related behaviours (SRB). Sexual individuals in deprived areas may face unique challenges and stressors that exacerbate their risk SRB. This study aims to investigate association between clinical SRB, examine whether effect differs across orientation. Methods A population-representative survey sample (169,090 respondents weighted represent 8,778,120...

Background As governments around the world implement austerity measures to reduce national deficits, there is an urgent need investigate potential health impacts of specific avoid unintended consequences. In 2013, UK government implemented underoccupancy penalty (ie, bedroom tax) housing benefits bill, by cutting social subsidies for households deemed have excess rooms. We investigated impact tax on self-reported psychological distress. Methods Using data from Household Longitudinal Study...

Recreational cannabis policies are being considered in many jurisdictions internationally. Given that use is more prevalent among people with depression, legalisation may lead to adverse events this population. Cannabis Canada included the of flower and herbs (phase 1) October 2018, deregulation edibles one year later 2). This study investigated disparities cannabis-related emergency department (ED) visits depressed non-depressed individuals each phase.Using administrative data, we...

Background: National lockdown in the UK during COVID-19 pandemic severely restricted mobility of residents and increased time spent their residential neighbourhoods. This is a unique opportunity to understand how an exogenous factor that reduces may influence association between neighbourhood social environment mental health. study investigates whether modify effect disorder on psychological distress. Methods: We tracked changes distress, using household longitudinal survey across pre-COVID...

ABSTRACT Legalization of recreational cannabis in Ontario included the legalization flower and herbs (Phase 1, October 2018), was followed by deregulation retailers sales edibles 2, February 2020). Research on impact acute care utilization is nascet; no research has investigated potential age, gender, geographically vulnerable subgroup effects. Residents living Northern not only have higher levels substance use problems, but also inadequate access to primary healthcare. Our study Ontario’s...

Purpose: In 2014, the Korean Government passed Gender Equality Act, which was accompanied by policies to increase women's participation in labour force and representation positions of power public private sectors. While Korea has witnessed modest progress macro-level gender equality, little is known about effects these changes on mental health outcomes. Our study investigated relationship between regional-level equality (as measured economic political power) depressive symptoms from 2013-18,...

Objectives. To examine the whether #MeToo movement influenced depressive symptoms of women with a history sexual violenceMethods. We used nationally representative sample (n=4429) aged 19-50 from Korean Longitudinal Survey Women and Families between 2012-2019. A difference-in-differences model was to estimate within-person change in attributable across without violence. Depressive were measured using Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CESD) scale. Results. The led 1.64 decrease...

Objective: To quantify suicide-related behaviour (SRB) leading to acute care or deaths across heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual individuals using population-representative sample health administrative data.Methods: We linked data from a population-based survey (n=123,995) (2002-2019), examined differences in time-to-SRB events sexual orientations Cox proportional hazards regression.Results: The crude incidence rates for heterosexuals was 224.67 SRB events/100,000 person-years, while the...

Objectives. To examine the whether #MeToo movement influenced depressive symptoms of women with a history sexual violence.Methods. We used nationally representative sample (n=4429) aged 19-50 from Korean Longitudinal Survey Women and Families between 2012-2019. A difference-in-differences model was to estimate within-person change in attributable across without violence. Depressive were measured using Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CESD) scale.Results. The led 1.64 decrease...

Background and AimsPrevious studies have found that lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) individuals report higher rates of substance use compared to the general population. However, evidence regarding association between sexual orientation clinically validated outcomes is limited. We aim quantify disparities in substance-related acute events (i.e., hospitalizations deaths for substances including alcohol, cannabis, opioids, narcotics, and/or illicit drugs) across orientations based on health...

Background: There is growing evidence that lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adults experience more sleep problems than the general population, but little known about its underlying social risk factors. As LGB individuals report family rejection a lack of support, our study investigates role support as potential determinant problems. Given importance on mental physical health, results may help shed light persistent health disparities across sexual orientations. Methods: Our sample included...

To examine whether the #MeToo movement influenced depressive symptoms among women in South Korea with a history of experiencing sexual violence.

Objective: To investigate the disparity in suicide-related behaviours across sexual orientations by gender.Design: Retrospective cohort study using a linkage of population-based survey and health administrative data. Setting: Ontario, Canada between January 2002 December 2019Participants: 123,995 residents aged 10+ were followed up for non-fatal self-harm fatal suicide events that resulted hospital, emergency department presentation, or death (average follow-up time=11.4 years). Main outcome...

Rural sexual minorities may experience unique stressors due to stigma and a lack of minority-specific social health services. We examine whether rural minority status are associated with suicide-related behaviour (SRB) risks, using nationally representative survey linked administrative data Ontario individuals from 2007-2017. Our study provides evidence that both independently contribute an elevated likelihood SRB; however, orientation did not appear modify the SRB risk by rurality....