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Suicidality and depression disparities between sexual minority and heterosexual youth: a meta-analytic review.

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Disparities in suicidality and depression may be influenced by negative experiences including discrimination and victimization and Clinicians should assess sexual orientation, analyze psychosocial histories to identify associated risk factors, and promote prevention and intervention opportunities for SMY and their families.
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This article is published in Journal of Adolescent Health.The article was published on 2011-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 948 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Heterosexuality & Sexual minority.

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Mental Health in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Youth.

TL;DR: An overview of the contemporary context for LGBT youth is provided, followed by a review of current science on LGBT youth mental health, which point to promising directions for prevention, intervention, and treatment.
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Mental health of sexual minorities. A systematic review.

TL;DR: A systematic review provides an update by including numerous recent studies, and explores whether SM individuals are at increased risk across selected mental health problems as per dimensions of sexual orientation (SO), genders, life-stages, geographic regions, and in higher quality studies.
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Sexual Minority-Related Victimization as a Mediator of Mental Health Disparities in Sexual Minority Youth: A Longitudinal Analysis

TL;DR: The results support the minority stress hypothesis that targeted harassment and victimization are partly responsible for the higher levels of depressive symptoms and suicidality found in sexual minority youth.
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Lifetime Prevalence of Suicide Attempts Among Sexual Minority Adults by Study Sampling Strategies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

TL;DR: Regardless of sample type examined, sexual minorities had a higher lifetime prevalence of suicide attempts than heterosexual persons; however, the magnitude of this disparity was contingent upon sample type.
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Risk and protective factors for depression that adolescents can modify: a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.

TL;DR: Future health education campaigns or self-help prevention interventions targeting adolescent depression should aim to reduce substance use; dieting; and negative coping strategies; and promote healthy weight; diet; and sleep patterns.
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The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations.

TL;DR: This article seeks to make theorists and researchers aware of the importance of not using the terms moderator and mediator interchangeably by carefully elaborating the many ways in which moderators and mediators differ, and delineates the conceptual and strategic implications of making use of such distinctions with regard to a wide range of phenomena.
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The CES-D Scale: A Self-Report Depression Scale for Research in the General Population

TL;DR: The CES-D scale as discussed by the authors is a short self-report scale designed to measure depressive symptomatology in the general population, which has been used in household interview surveys and in psychiatric settings.
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An inventory for measuring depression

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Meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiology - A proposal for reporting

TL;DR: A checklist contains specifications for reporting of meta-analyses of observational studies in epidemiology, including background, search strategy, methods, results, discussion, and conclusion should improve the usefulness ofMeta-an analyses for authors, reviewers, editors, readers, and decision makers.
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