The mental health crisis in young people of the LGBTQ+ community aged 15-24 in the Philippines continues to worsen, as revealed by a Trevor Project
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These thoughts were associated with depression, recent suicide attempts of a friend, and experiences of threat and victimization. In 2021 the University of the Philippines Population Institute 2021 Young Adult Fertility and Sexuality Study found that close to almost 1.5 million youth had tried ending their life in 2021 — that is 7.5% of youth. That is a 150% increase over the 3% recorded in 2013.
62% reported symptoms of depression, and 62% reported symptoms of anxiety; 59% engaged in self-harm in the past year. 19% reported being threatened with, or subjected to conversion therapy, Trevor used targeted ads on social media platforms to recruit, not via their website or social media accounts. A quantitative cross-sectional design was used. Individuals aged 15 to 24 residing in the Philippines were eligible, and responses collected over a three-week period in June 2023. The secure online questionnaire had up to 70 questions.
Chi-square tests were used to examine differences between groups; comparisons are statistically significant at p<0.05, implying that results are not due to chance. Small participant numbers in categories were indicated; all comparisons included subgroup sample sizes of at least 50 respondents except when noted otherwise.
The report has up to nine different ethnicity categories: Ilocano, Waray, Ilonggo, Bisaya, Cebuano, Bicolano, Kapampangan, Tagalog and the “others not mentioned above” category . Almost half of the respondents said they were Tagalog, and the rest varied from 2% to 14%. The smallest category with 2% has over 100 respondents.
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