Prevalence of self-harm among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adolescents: a comparison of personal and social adversity with a heterosexual sample in Ghana

Abstract Objectives We sought to estimate the prevalence of self-reported self-harm among adolescents identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) in Ghana, and compare self-reported personal and social adversities related to self-harm in this group to those in a random sample of he...

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Main Authors: Emmanuel N.-B. Quarshie, Mitch G. Waterman, Allan O. House
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-06-01
Series:BMC Research Notes
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13104-020-05111-4