What is it about?
Based on two different large data sets we found female sexual minority members more likely to die by suicide, but for males this was not true
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Why is it important?
Gender differences may be an important factor in explaining why the men and women are different in actually taking their lives.
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This is important because large samples are needed to explain differences in suicide, a relatively rare event, and having a sexual minority members, another relatively rare event.
William Feigelman
Nassau Community College
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This page is a summary of: Research Note on Whether Sexual Minority Individuals Are Over-Represented Among Suicide's Casualties, Crisis, October 2019, Hogrefe Publishing Group,
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000626.
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