Medidas de salud mental y bienestar subjetivo en una muestra de hombres gays y mujeres lesbianas en Chile

Background: Most of the information in Chile about health and wellbeing of sexual minorities refers to risk behaviors. Aim: To assess health and wellbeing in a sample of Chilean homosexual men and women. Material and Methods: Spanish versions of the Satisfaction With Life Scale and Outcome Questi...

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Autores principales: Barrientos,Jaime, Gómez,Fabiola, Cárdenas,Manuel, Gúzman,Mónica, Bahamondes,Joaquín
Lenguaje:Spanish / Castilian
Publicado: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2017
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spelling oai:scielo:S0034-988720170009011152017-12-07Medidas de salud mental y bienestar subjetivo en una muestra de hombres gays y mujeres lesbianas en ChileBarrientos,JaimeGómez,FabiolaCárdenas,ManuelGúzman,MónicaBahamondes,Joaquín Homosexuality Mental Health Sexual Minorities Suicida Ideation Background: Most of the information in Chile about health and wellbeing of sexual minorities refers to risk behaviors. Aim: To assess health and wellbeing in a sample of Chilean homosexual men and women. Material and Methods: Spanish versions of the Satisfaction With Life Scale and Outcome Questionnaire-45 (OQ-45) were answered by 191 homosexual women and 256 homosexual men aged 18 to 67 years, from four Chilean cities. Results: Lesbian women have better levels of satisfaction with life and adjustment in personal relationships than homosexual men. Eight percent of respondents had suicidal thoughts in some moment of their life. Conclusions: The information gathered in this work could help in the development of mental health policies for sexual minorities.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.145 n.9 20172017-09-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872017000901115es10.4067/s0034-98872017000901115
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language Spanish / Castilian
topic Homosexuality
Mental Health
Sexual Minorities
Suicida Ideation
spellingShingle Homosexuality
Mental Health
Sexual Minorities
Suicida Ideation
Barrientos,Jaime
Gómez,Fabiola
Cárdenas,Manuel
Gúzman,Mónica
Bahamondes,Joaquín
Medidas de salud mental y bienestar subjetivo en una muestra de hombres gays y mujeres lesbianas en Chile
description Background: Most of the information in Chile about health and wellbeing of sexual minorities refers to risk behaviors. Aim: To assess health and wellbeing in a sample of Chilean homosexual men and women. Material and Methods: Spanish versions of the Satisfaction With Life Scale and Outcome Questionnaire-45 (OQ-45) were answered by 191 homosexual women and 256 homosexual men aged 18 to 67 years, from four Chilean cities. Results: Lesbian women have better levels of satisfaction with life and adjustment in personal relationships than homosexual men. Eight percent of respondents had suicidal thoughts in some moment of their life. Conclusions: The information gathered in this work could help in the development of mental health policies for sexual minorities.
author Barrientos,Jaime
Gómez,Fabiola
Cárdenas,Manuel
Gúzman,Mónica
Bahamondes,Joaquín
author_facet Barrientos,Jaime
Gómez,Fabiola
Cárdenas,Manuel
Gúzman,Mónica
Bahamondes,Joaquín
author_sort Barrientos,Jaime
title Medidas de salud mental y bienestar subjetivo en una muestra de hombres gays y mujeres lesbianas en Chile
title_short Medidas de salud mental y bienestar subjetivo en una muestra de hombres gays y mujeres lesbianas en Chile
title_full Medidas de salud mental y bienestar subjetivo en una muestra de hombres gays y mujeres lesbianas en Chile
title_fullStr Medidas de salud mental y bienestar subjetivo en una muestra de hombres gays y mujeres lesbianas en Chile
title_full_unstemmed Medidas de salud mental y bienestar subjetivo en una muestra de hombres gays y mujeres lesbianas en Chile
title_sort medidas de salud mental y bienestar subjetivo en una muestra de hombres gays y mujeres lesbianas en chile
publisher Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate 2017
url http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872017000901115
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