Evidence map›Paper›PMID 37488585›Full record

ArticleBMC public health2023

Affirming educational and workplace settings are associated with positive mental health and happiness outcomes for LGBTQA + youth in Australia.

Natalie Amos, Adam O Hill, Jami Jones, G J Melendez-Torres, Marina Carman, Anthony Lyons, Adam Bourne

Open access · goldAbstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in BMC public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people.The Medical journal of Australia · 2025
    Article
  3. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Natalie AmosAustralian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Building NR6, Bundoora, VIC, 3086, Australia. n.amos@latrobe.edu.au.
Adam O HillAustralian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Building NR6, Bundoora, VIC, 3086, Australia.
Jami JonesAustralian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Building NR6, Bundoora, VIC, 3086, Australia.
G J Melendez-TorresCollege of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, England, UK.
Marina CarmanAustralian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Building NR6, Bundoora, VIC, 3086, Australia.
Anthony LyonsAustralian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Building NR6, Bundoora, VIC, 3086, Australia.
Adam BourneAustralian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Building NR6, Bundoora, VIC, 3086, Australia.
La Trobe University · AUSt. Luke's International University · JPUniversity of Exeter · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAffirming socio-cultural settings are essential for protecting the mental health and wellbeing of lesbian, bisexual or pansexual, trans and gender diverse, asexual and queer (LGBTQA +) youth. However, limited research has explored the role of affirming educational and workplace settings, as reported by LGBTQA + youth themselves, with respect to their mental health and wellbeing. Moreover, existing research maintains a focus on mitigating poor mental health outcomes, with little attention to positive wellbeing outcomes among LGBTQA + youth.

methodsUsing data from the largest national survey of LGBTQA + youth aged 14-21 in Australia, multivariable regression analyses were conducted to explore associations between affirming educational and workplace settings and psychological distress and subjective wellbeing among 4,331 cisgender and 1,537 trans and gender diverse youth. Additionally, a series of multivariable regression analyses were conducted to explore individual sociodemographic traits that are associated with reporting affirming educational or workplace settings.

resultsBoth cisgender and trans or gender diverse participants who reported that their education institution or workplace were affirming of their LGBTQA + identity reported lower levels of psychological distress as well as higher levels of subjective happiness. Additionally, affirming environments were not experienced equally across all subsections of LGBTQA + youth, with reporting of an affirming educational or workplace setting differing most noticeably across gender, type of educational institution and residential location.

conclusionThe findings demonstrate that affirming educational and workplace settings can result not only in better mental health, but also greater levels of subjective happiness among LGBTQA + youth. The outcomes illustrate the importance of ensuring all LGBTQA + youth are afforded the opportunity to thrive in environments where they feel validated and confident to express their identities. The findings further highlight a need to target education institutions and workplaces to ensure the implementation of policies and practices that promote not just inclusion of LGBTQA + youth but affirmation of their identities.

Indexed as

Sexual and Gender MinoritiesTransgender PersonsAdolescentEducational StatusFemaleGender IdentityHappinessHumansMaleMental HealthSexual BehaviorWorkplaceAffirmationEducationHappinessLGBTQAMental healthWellbeingWorkYouth

Identifiers

PMID37488585
PMCPMC10367347
OpenAlexW4385187814

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.