Abstract
Uneasy Partners: The Lesbian and Gay Health Care Community and the AMA
Highlights
Among eligible respondents, 59% (4501) completed a 716item, self-administered questionnaire covering health status, history, and behavior, as well as aspects of medical practice and demographics
Force on Youth Suicide, which appeared in 1989, sparked a controversy that continues to the present day
“gay youth are 2 to 3 times more likely to attempt suicide than other young people. They may comprise up to 30% of completed youth suicides annually.”1 Some experts rejected the conclusions as being drawn from biased samples
Summary
59% (4501) completed a 716item, self-administered questionnaire covering health status, history, and behavior, as well as aspects of medical practice and demographics. In his chapter on gay and lesbian youth suicide, Gibson projected that Considerable work since has addressed the putative association between sexual orientation and suicide. Five of 6 such studies involved representative samples of US secondary school students15-19 and one, a community sample of young men from Calgary, Canada.20 All found higher rates of attempted suicide among homosexual youths compared to their heterosexual peers.
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