Healio (5/6, Gramigna) reports, “Nondiscrimination policies appeared associated with a decrease or no change in suicidality among gender minority individuals living in states with these policies,” investigators concluded after conducting “a difference-in-differences analysis to compare changes in mental health outcomes among gender minority enrollees before and after nondiscrimination policy implementation between 2009 and 2017.” Next, “using gender minority-related diagnosis codes obtained from private health insurance claims, they identified” and examined the “data of 28,980 unique gender minority enrollees from 2009 to 2017.” The findings were published online May 6 in JAMA Psychiatry.
Related Links:
— “State-level nondiscrimination policies may decrease suicidality among gender minority individuals, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, May 6, 2020