Self-Reported Mental Disorders and Distress by Sexual Orientation: Results of the Minnesota College Student Health Survey

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 29-40

  Przedworski, Julia M ^a   VanKim, Nicole A ^b   Eisenberg, Marla E ^b   McAlpine, Donna D ^a   Lust, Katherine A ^b   Laska, Melissa N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; COLLEGE STUDENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUAL FEMALE; HOMOSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY SAMPLE; RANDOM SAMPLE; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL MINORITY; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; MENTAL DISORDERS; MINNESOTA; MINORITY GROUP; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MINNESOTA; MINORITY GROUPS; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84932195492     PISSN: 07493797     EISSN: 18732607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2015.01.024     Document Type: Article

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