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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.
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item_issues_timestamp: 2012-05-19 06:10:37
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creators_name: Westrick, Kimberly
creators_email: kiw11@pitt.edu
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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
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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
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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