HealthDay (6/3, Mozes) reports, “An alarming number of teens practice self-harm, but lesbian, gay and bisexual teens may be more than twice as likely as their straight peers to cut, hit or bruise themselves,” research indicated. After examining the “self-injury risk among more than 21,000 high schoolers in the state of Massachusetts between 2005 and 2017,” investigators found that “38% to 53% of lesbian, gay and bisexual teens” engaged in these behaviors, compared to “between 10% and 20% of heterosexual teens.” The findings were published online June 3 in a research letter in JAMA Pediatrics.
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— “Lesbian, Gay Youth at Higher Risk for Self-Harm, “Alan Mozes, HealthDay, June 3, 2019