eprintid: 12170 rev_number: 29 userid: 755 dir: disk0/00/01/21/70 datestamp: 2012-06-29 17:03:36 lastmod: 2016-12-19 14:38:28 status_changed: 2012-06-29 17:03:36 type: thesis_degree succeeds: 12169 metadata_visibility: show contact_email: kpwestri@gmail.com item_issues_id: duplicate_title_11707 item_issues_id: duplicate_title_12169 item_issues_id: thesis_degree_versioning item_issues_type: duplicate_title item_issues_type: duplicate_title item_issues_type: thesis_degree_versioning item_issues_description: Duplicate title to Westrick, Kimberly Bisexual Women and Mental Health: A Community-Based Research Agenda. Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh. item_issues_description: Duplicate title to Westrick, Kimberly BISEXUAL WOMEN’S MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH: A COMMUNITY-BASED, SOCIAL JUSTICE APPROACH. Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh. item_issues_description: ETD 12170 is using versioning. item_issues_timestamp: 2012-04-28 06:10:41 item_issues_timestamp: 2012-05-19 06:10:37 item_issues_timestamp: 2013-09-11 17:48:16 item_issues_status: autoresolved item_issues_status: autoresolved item_issues_status: discovered item_issues_count: 1 eprint_status: archive creators_name: Westrick, Kimberly creators_email: kiw11@pitt.edu creators_id: KIW11 title: Bisexual Women's Mental Health Research: A Community-based, Social Justice Approach ispublished: unpub divisions: sch_gsph_behavioralcommhealthsci full_text_status: public keywords: Bisexual, Woman, Women, Sexual Minority, Mental Health, Depression, Anxiety, Suicide, Queer abstract: The goals of this paper were to review the public health literature on bisexual women’s mental health, discuss the strengths and limitations of the research and propose a social justice framework for a future research agenda. The social justice framework includes Community-Based Participatory Research and the use of an intersectional approach. The literature has found bisexual women to have higher rates of depression, anxiety and suicidality than heterosexual and lesbian women, indicating the public health significance of this topic. Reported protective factors of mental health for bisexual women were social support and connectedness to the lesbian gay bisexual transgender community. Risk factors were discrimination, lack of community and social support, poverty, substance use, self-harm and eating Disorders. Limitations of the research include but are not limited to inconsistent categorization of sex category and gender expression, lack of population-based random samples, and lack of longitudinal data. Current research falsely approaches bisexual women as an unstratified and monolithic community, defaulting to unmarked privileged categories. The small body of research on this topic is lacking but warrants further investigation through longitudinal and qualitative community-driven studies. date: 2012-06-29 date_type: completed pages: 49 institution: University of Pittsburgh refereed: TRUE etdcommittee_type: committee_chair etdcommittee_type: committee_member etdcommittee_type: committee_member etdcommittee_name: Burke, Jessica etdcommittee_name: Miller, Elizabeth etdcommittee_name: Brush, Lisa etdcommittee_name: Friedman, Mark etdcommittee_email: JGBURKE@pitt.edu etdcommittee_email: elizabeth.miller@chp.edu etdcommittee_email: lbrush@pitt.edu etdcommittee_email: msf11@pitt.edu etdcommittee_id: JGBURKE etdcommittee_id: ELM114 etdcommittee_id: LBRUSH etdcommittee_id: MSF11 etd_defense_date: 2012-04-04 etd_approval_date: 2012-06-29 etd_submission_date: 2012-04-10 etd_release_date: 2012-06-29 etd_access_restriction: immediate etd_patent_pending: FALSE assigned_doi: doi:10.5195/pitt.etd.2012.11707 thesis_type: thesis degree: MPH citation: Westrick, Kimberly (2012) Bisexual Women's Mental Health Research: A Community-based, Social Justice Approach. Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished) document_url: http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/12170/1/Westrick_Thesis_Final.pdf