ArticleCognitive and behavioral practice2019
A Multilevel Approach for Reducing Mental Health and Substance Use Disparities Affecting Bisexual Individuals.
Article in Cognitive and behavioral practice, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed.
- 'Is it worth potentially dealing with someone who won't get it?': LGBTQA+ university students' perspectives on mental health care.Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · 2025Article
- Systems of Care Implications in Hawai'i: Sexual and Gender Minorities.Hawai'i journal of health & social welfare · 2022Article
- Examining perceived effects of same-sex marriage legalization among sexual minority women: Identifying demographic differences and factors related to alcohol use disorder, depression, and self-perceived health.Sexuality research & social policy : journal of NSRC : SR & SP · 2022Article
- The perks of being bi+: Positive sexual orientation-related experiences among bisexual, pansexual, and queer male youth.Psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity · 2022Article
- Psychiatric, Substance Use, and Structural Disparities Between Gay and Bisexual Men with Histories of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Recent Sexual Risk Behavior.Archives of sexual behavior · 2021Article
- Prospective associations between bi+ minority stressors and internalizing symptoms: The mediating roles of general and group-specific processes.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2021Article
- Understanding Polarizing Community Perspectives on Harm Reduction Strategies: Challenges to Addressing the Opioid Crisis in Appalachian Pennsylvania.Journal of Appalachian health · 2021Article
- Perceived Attitudes Toward Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual (LGB) Issues and Mental Health Among Taiwanese LGB Adults: The Mediating Role of Self-Acceptance.Archives of sexual behavior · 2020Article
- Nonmonosexual Stress and Dimensions of Health: Within-Group Variation by Sexual, Gender, and Racial/Ethnic Identities.Psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity · 2020Article
- Introduction to the special issue: Improving the health of a local bisexual community through the creation of a citywide task force.Journal of bisexuality · 2020Article
- Improving the health of cisgender men who identify as bisexual: What do they want from interventions?Sexuality research & social policy : journal of NSRC : SR & SP · 2019Article
- HERE-Bi: Feasibility and Acceptability of a Self-Esteem Intervention for Young Bisexual People to Reduce Non-Suicidal Self-Injury.Clinical psychology & psychotherapyArticle
- Sexual Violence, Posttraumatic Stress, and Heterosexism in Relation to Suicide and Self-Harm Risk in Bisexual + College Students.Archives of suicide research : official journal of the International Academy for Suicide ResearchArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Despite bisexual individuals being at increased risk for mental health and substance use problems, clinicians' ability to provide affirmative and competent care to bisexual clients is limited by their lack of bisexual-specific training. To address this common gap in training, this article provides a brief review of bisexual health disparities and the factors that influence them. Then, we describe a multi-level approach for improving the health and well-being of bisexual individuals. This approach addresses factors that influence health at the micro-level (e.g., strategies that clinicians can use to help bisexual clients cope with stigma-related stressors), mezzo-level (e.g., adaptations to clinical environments and training programs that promote bisexual-affirmative care), and macro-level (e.g., advocating for political change and implementing strategies to reduce prejudice against bisexual individuals at the population-level). Specifically, we describe how clinicians can adapt evidence-based interventions to tailor them to the needs of their bisexual clients. Additionally, we discuss the need for bisexual-affirmative clinical training and provide recommendations for how clinical training can be adapted to prepare clinicians to work effectively with bisexual clients. Finally, we describe how population-level interventions can be used to reduce prejudice against bisexual individuals in order to reduce bisexual health disparities. Given the striking health disparities affecting bisexual individuals, there is a critical need to develop, test, and disseminate interventions to improve the health of this population and to prepare clinicians to provide bisexual-affirmative care.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.