ArticlePediatrics2021
Sexual Minority Status and Age of Onset of Adolescent Suicide Ideation and Behavior.
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- Why do adolescents attempt suicide? Insights from leading ideation-to-action suicide theories: a systematic review.Translational psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Intersectional Minority Stress and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors among Black Sexual and Gender Minority Youth.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Whose suffering counts? Research funding, scientific freedom, and the epistemic erasure of sexual and gender diverse children.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Trends in self-harm visits to the emergency department among children and youth before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta: An interrupted time series analysis.Paediatrics & child health · 2026Article
- Mental health disorders, childhood adversities, and recent stressors as risk factors for non-suicidal self-injury, and suicidality among LGBTQA + higher education students.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Intersectional marginalized identities as predictors of time until first reported suicide attempt among preadolescent youth using survival analysis.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- Opportunities to Address Health Disparities in Suicidality for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in Public Systems.Mental health science · 2025Article
- Differential patterns of emotion regulation in sexual minority adolescents in residential treatment.Journal of affective disorders · 2025Article
- Identifying important predictors of adolescent suicide ideation, planning, and attempt in low- and middle-income countries.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2025Article
- Weight Stigma and Mental and Emotional Health Among Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals: A Scoping Review.LGBT health · 2024Article
- Mental health and body image among SGM youth engaged with a digital eating disorder intervention.Journal of LGBT youth · 2024Article
- Digital Sexual Violence and Suicide Risk in a National Sample of Sexual Minority Adolescents.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2023Article
- HIV and suicide risk across adolescence and young adulthood: an examination of socio-demographic, contextual and psychosocial risk factors for attempted suicide in a longitudinal cohort of ageing adolescents affected by HIV living in the New York City Area.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2022Article
- Non-disclosing youth: a cross sectional study to understand why young people do not disclose suicidal thoughts to their mental health professional.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
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objectivesTo determine if sexual minority adolescents have earlier onset of suicidality and faster progressions from ideation to plan and attempt than heterosexual adolescents.
methodsA population-based longitudinal cohort of 1771 adolescents participated in the NEXT Generation Health Study. Participants reported sexual minority status (defined by sexual attraction) in 2010-2011 and retrospectively reported age at onset of suicidality in 2015-2016.
resultsSexual minority adolescents (5.8% of weighted sample) had higher lifetime risk of suicide ideation (26.1% vs 13.0%), plan (16.6% vs 5.4%), and attempt (12.0% vs 5.4%) than heterosexual adolescents. Survival analyses adjusted for demographic characteristics and depressive symptoms revealed positive associations of sexual minority status with time to first onset of suicide ideation (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.77; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.03-3.06) and plan (HR = 2.69; 95% CI 1.30-5.56). The association between sexual minority status and age at onset of suicide attempt was stronger at age <15 (HR = 3.26; 95% CI 1.25-8.47) than age ≥15 (HR = 0.59; 95% CI 0.21-1.66). The association between sexual minority status and progression from ideation to plan was stronger in the same year of first ideation (HR = 2.01; 95% CI 1.07-3.77) than ≥1 year after first ideation (HR = 1.33; 95% CI 0.26-6.77).
conclusionsSexual minority adolescents had earlier onset of suicidality and faster progression from suicide ideation to plan than heterosexual adolescents. The assessment of sexual minority status in routine pediatric care has the potential to inform suicide risk screening, management, and intervention efforts among early sexual minority adolescents.
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