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Gender‐minority students face large mental health disparities
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32035
Subject(s) - mental health , transgender , gender identity , psychology , face (sociological concept) , medical education , identity (music) , graduate students , clinical psychology , gerontology , medicine , psychiatry , social psychology , sociology , pedagogy , social science , physics , acoustics , psychoanalysis
Transgender students are more than four times as likely to have at least one mental health problem compared to cisgender students, according to Boston University researchers examining mental health status by gender identity among undergraduate and graduate students. The new research is currently published online in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine .