Antitrans Policy Environment and Depression and Anxiety Symptoms in Transgender and Nonbinary Adults
Restar A, Layland E, Hughes L, Dusic E, Lucas R, Bambilla A, Martin A, Shook A, Karrington B, Schwarz D, Shimkin G, Grandberry V, Xanadu X, Streed C, Operario D, Gamarel K, Kershaw T. Antitrans Policy Environment and Depression and Anxiety Symptoms in Transgender and Nonbinary Adults. JAMA Network Open 2024, 7: e2431306. PMID: 39172447, PMCID: PMC11342136, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.31306.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHealth care accessMental health outcomesCurrent depressive symptomsAnxiety symptomsCare accessHealth outcomesDepressive symptomsTrans adultsPatient Health Questionnaire-4Worsening mental health outcomesHealth care experiencesOdds of depressionTrans individualsAssociated with depressionNegative mental health consequencesCross-sectional studyPolicy environmentSeries of multivariate regression modelsCross-sectional dataCare experiencesTrans healthMultivariate regression modelMain OutcomesNonbinary adultsPrimary outcome