Evaluating Web-Based Care for Mental Health and Substance Use Issues for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, and 2-Spirit Youths in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Community-Based Participatory Research Study by Michael Chaiton, Rachel Thorburn, Emily Chan, Ilana Copeland, Chieng Luphuyong, Patrick Feng

“… BackgroundMental health (MH) and substance use (SU) care supports are often difficult to access for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and 2-spirit (LGBTQ2S+) population. There is little known on how the shift to web-based care has affected and changed the experiences of LGBTQ2S+ youths within the MH care system. …”
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Correlates of wanting to seek help for mental health and substance use concerns by sexual and gender minority young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A machine learning analysis... by Anasua Kundu, Rui Fu, Daniel Grace, Carmen H Logie, Alex Abramovich, Bruce Baskerville, Christina Yager, Robert Schwartz, Nicholas Mitsakakis, Lynn Planinac, Michael Chaiton

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the mental health and substance use challenges among many people who are Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and intersex (2SLGBTQI+). …”
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Machine Learning Applications in Mental Health and Substance Use Research Among the LGBTQ2S+ Population: Scoping Review by Anasua Kundu, Michael Chaiton, Rebecca Billington, Daniel Grace, Rui Fu, Carmen Logie, Bruce Baskerville, Christina Yager, Nicholas Mitsakakis, Robert Schwartz

“…ObjectiveThis review aims to identify literature studies that used machine learning (ML) to investigate mental health or substance use concerns among the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, and two-spirit (LGBTQ2S+) population and direct future research in this field. …”
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