Open AccessPoorer mental health in UK bisexual women than lesbians: evidence from the UK 2007 Stonewall Women's Health Survey
Author(s) -
Lisa Colledge,
Ford Hickson,
David Reid,
Peter Weatherburn
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdu105
Subject(s) - lesbian , mental health , minority stress , psychology , sexual orientation , sexual minority , sexual identity , psychiatry , clinical psychology , medicine , human sexuality , social psychology , gender studies , sociology , psychoanalysis
Bisexual- and lesbian-identified women have significantly worse mental health than heterosexual women. Less evidence exists about mental health differences between lesbian and bisexual women.
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