ArticleAnnals of epidemiology2020
Parent versus child report of children's sexual orientation: associations with psychiatric morbidity in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study.
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- Expert consensus on involving sexual and gender diverse preteens in suicide research: a Delphi study.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Sexual and Gender Minority Sleep Health Disparities and Minority Stress in Early Adolescence.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2024Article
- Guided LGBTQ-affirmative internet cognitive-behavioral therapy for sexual minority youth's mental health: A randomized controlled trial of a minority stress treatment approach.Behaviour research and therapy · 2023Article
- A Developmental Model of the Sexual Minority Closet: Structural Sensitization, Psychological Adaptations, and Post-closet Growth.Archives of sexual behavior · 2023Article
- Pediatric sexual orientation and gender identity data collection in the electronic health record.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeWe sought to document the association between parent's report and their child's report of the child's sexual orientation and associations between this agreement/disagreement and the child's psychiatric morbidity.
methodsData were drawn from 11,565 parent-child dyads who completed the baseline assessment of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study (2016-2018; children ages 9-10 years). Whether the child was "gay or bisexual" was asked separately of parent and child. We created four categories: (1) Concordant No; (2) Discordant: Parent Yes/Maybe, Child No/Unclear; (3) Discordant: Parent No, Child Yes/Maybe; (4) Concordant Yes/Maybe. Parents reported their child's lifetime psychiatric morbidity (i.e., depression, anxiety, ADHD, ODD, OCD, PTSD, eating disorder, and conduct disorder).
resultsOf parent-child dyads, 960 (7.9%) disagreed about the child's sexual orientation; the Concordant No dyads reported the lowest psychiatric morbidity compared with the other three dyad groups. Child psychiatric morbidity among the Discordant: Parent Yes/Maybe dyads compared with the Concordant No dyads was elevated across all disorders except PTSD (e.g., depression [adjusted odds ratio (aOR) = 2.20, 95% confidence interval (95% CI): 1.51-3.21], anxiety [aOR = 1.63, 95% CI: 1.38-1.92], and eating disorder [aOR = 2.63, 95% CI: 1.39-4.68]).
conclusionsThe sexual orientation disparity in psychiatric morbidity begins in childhood. Parent-child agreement/disagreement of children's sexual orientation represents a potential marker of this early vulnerability.
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