Minority stress predictors of HIV risk behavior, substance use, and depressive symptoms: results from a prospective study of bereaved gay men. | Semantic Scholar (2024)

It is hypothesized that psychological distress and acute gay-related stigma placed all participants at most risk for HIV acquisition, and mental health needs to be a target of intervention, as it constitutes a protective factor against HIV risk for all YMSM.

The moderating effects of age on three psychosocial predictors of HIV risk behavior and substance use were examined, such that older and more anxious participants had more frequent instances of sexual risk and younger participants who identified with the gay community reported less sexual risk.

Examining the prospective relationships between experiencing HIV-related stigma and symptoms of anxiety and depression, as well as sexual transmission risk behavior, found that experiencing stigma may increase risk for sexual Transmission risk behavior and mental health problems.

Interventions focused on addressing psychological problems may help mitigate the effects of minority stress on HIV sexual risk-taking among GBMSM in Nigeria.

The manifestations of sexual stigma are linked to poorer mental and physical health in HIV-positive gay and bisexual men and minority stress is an important concept that needs to be further addressed in the contexts of HIV care.

Support is provided for the minority stress theory proposition that chronic social stress due to sexual orientation is associated with poorer mental health and substance use in same-sex attracted young people.

It is critical for researchers and clinicians to consider the effects of intersecting racial and sexual minority stigma on emotion regulation in the persistence of psychological and behavioral health inequities facing Black, Latino, and multiracial GBM.

Preliminary support for dyadic crossover effects of relationship stigma on the health of partners is provided, illustrating the importance of minority stress and dyadic stress frameworks in understanding and intervening upon mental health disparities among transgender women and their male partners.

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The results supported minority stress hypotheses: each of the stressors had a significant independent association with a variety of mental health measures and odds ratios suggested that men who had high levels of minority stress were twice to three times as likely to suffer also from high level of distress.

Higher levels of discrimination may underlie recent observations of greater psychiatric morbidity risk among lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals.

The mental health difficulties experienced by many gay and bisexual Latino men in the United States are directly related to a social context of oppression that leads to social alienation, low self-esteem, and symptoms of psychologic distress.

It is concluded that risk varies over time by HIV status and may involve engagement in new relationships in gay men up to 1 year before and 1 year after losing a partner to AIDS.

Although some findings were consistent with the hypothesis that stress would be associated with subsequent distress among GLB youths, the larger number of nonsignificant relations and the presence of relations between distress and subsequent gay-related stress indicate that the hypothesis was unsupported.

Results indicate that gay-b bisexual men evidenced higher prevalence of depression, panic attacks, and psychological distress than heterosexual men, and lesbian-bisexual women showed greater prevalence of generalized anxiety disorder than heterosexual women.

It is shown that LGBs have a higher prevalence of mental disorders than heterosexuals and a conceptual framework is offered for understanding this excess in prevalence of disorder in terms of minority stress--explaining that stigma, prejudice, and discrimination create a hostile and stressful social environment that causes mental health problems.

Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that severity of grief reaction was associated with escape-avoidance and self-controlling coping strategies, type of loss, depressive symptoms, and history of injection drug use.

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