Southern medical journal · 2024
LGBTQ+ Health Inequities in a Rural, Conservative Context: Alabama Compared with Other Southern States.
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MacCarthy Sarah, Johnson Austin H, DeLay J Mac, Froehlich Mallie, Harless Chase, Elliott Marc N
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OBJECTIVES: There are no statewide statistics regarding the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) Alabamians. To fill this gap, we used data collected by the Southern Equality Research and Policy Center to compare Alabama with other southern US states regarding the health and well-being of LGBTQ+ people.
METHODS: We tested for unadjusted differences between Alabama and other southern states using χ2 tests for dichotomous outcomes and the Wilcoxon rank-sum test for ordinal outcomes. Multivariate logistic models predicted dichotomous outcomes from an Alabama indicator, a continuous rurality variable, and a racial and ethnic minority indicator to control for differences in rurality and racial and ethnic composition; multivariate linear regression was used to approximate the point estimate of adjusted differences.
RESULTS: Alabama and other southern states had statistically similar and high levels of abuse, harassment, and poor mental and physical health. Alabamians lived in ZIP codes with somewhat higher rural-urban commuting area code rurality scores (AL 1.76; South 1.70; P = 0.036, where 1 is the most urban category). More than one-fourth of Alabama respondents reported experiencing self-harming behaviors; one-third reported suicidal ideation (33.1%); more than half reported anxiety disorders (57.6%); more than two-thirds reported being depressed (69.2%); and 25% to 75% experienced or feared emotional and physical abuse because of their identity. Multivariate adjusted results were generally similar to unadjusted results.
CONCLUSIONS: Alabama LGBTQ+ populations, who live in more rural settings than in most prior studies, experience markedly poor outcomes.
METHODS: We tested for unadjusted differences between Alabama and other southern states using χ2 tests for dichotomous outcomes and the Wilcoxon rank-sum test for ordinal outcomes. Multivariate logistic models predicted dichotomous outcomes from an Alabama indicator, a continuous rurality variable, and a racial and ethnic minority indicator to control for differences in rurality and racial and ethnic composition; multivariate linear regression was used to approximate the point estimate of adjusted differences.
RESULTS: Alabama and other southern states had statistically similar and high levels of abuse, harassment, and poor mental and physical health. Alabamians lived in ZIP codes with somewhat higher rural-urban commuting area code rurality scores (AL 1.76; South 1.70; P = 0.036, where 1 is the most urban category). More than one-fourth of Alabama respondents reported experiencing self-harming behaviors; one-third reported suicidal ideation (33.1%); more than half reported anxiety disorders (57.6%); more than two-thirds reported being depressed (69.2%); and 25% to 75% experienced or feared emotional and physical abuse because of their identity. Multivariate adjusted results were generally similar to unadjusted results.
CONCLUSIONS: Alabama LGBTQ+ populations, who live in more rural settings than in most prior studies, experience markedly poor outcomes.