People in sexual and gender minority groups were more likely to experience loneliness and have a lack of social and emotional support, results published in MMWR showed.
As Healio previously reported, data show that young transgender people are more likely to have worse mental health compared with the general population, which could contribute to adverse health effects.
Katherine V. Bruss, PsyD, from the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, and colleagues wrote that a better understanding of how loneliness and lack of social and emotional support