Mental health and help-seeking in Czech sexual minorities: a nationally representative cross-sectional study
Michal Pitoňák,
Libor Potočár,
Tomáš Formánek
Abstract:Aims
The mental health of sexual minority (SM) individuals remains overlooked and understudied in Czechia. We aimed to estimate (1) the prevalence rate and (2) the relative risk of common mental disorders and (3) the mental distress severity among the Czech SM people compared with the heterosexual population. In addition, we aimed to investigate help-seeking for mental disorders in SM people.
Methods
We used data from a cross-sectional, nationally representative survey of Czech community… Show more
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