Table 3.
Mental health, binge drinking and substance use during social distancing according to gender
| Total N = 3486 |
Transgender/non binary N = 86 (2.5%) |
Cisgender MSM N = 3400 (97.5%) |
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mental health problems | 2290 (65.7) | 76 (88.4) | 2214 (65.1) | < 0.001 |
| Suicidal thoughts | 400 (11.5) | 23 (26.7) | 377 (11.1) | < 0.001 |
| Physical, sexual or emotional abuse | 78 (2.2) | 2 (2.3) | 76 (2.2) | 0.96 |
| Alcohol use (yes) | 2181 (62.6) | 52 (60.5) | 2129 (62.6) | 0.68 |
| Frequency of Alcohol use | 0.34 | |||
| Increased | 647 (29.7) | 13 (25.0) | 634 (29.8) | |
| Same | 893 (40.9) | 19 (36.5) | 874 (41.1) | |
| Decreased | 641 (29.4) | 20 (38.5) | 621 (29.2) | |
| Binge drinking | 1705 (48.9) | 43 (50.0) | 1662 (48.9) | 0.84 |
| Tobacco smoking | 804 (23.1) | 32 (37.2) | 772 (22.7) | 0.002 |
| Tobacco smoking frequency | 0.10 | |||
| Increased | 397 (49.4) | 13 (40.6) | 384 (49.7) | |
| Same | 198 (24.6) | 6 (18.8) | 192 (24.9) | |
| Decreased | 163 (20.3) | 12 (37.5) | 151 (19.6) | |
| Started | 46 (5.7) | 1 (3.1) | 45 (5.8) | |
| Any illicit drug use | 806 (23.1) | 33 (38.4) | 773 (22.7) | < 0.001 |
| Illicit drug use frequency | 0.991 | |||
| Increased | 245 (30.4) | 10 (30.3) | 235 (30.4) | |
| Same | 223 (27.7) | 10 (30.3) | 213 (27.6) | |
| Initiated other illicit drugs | 20 (2.5) | 1 (3.0) | 19 (2.5) | |
| Decreased | 274 (34.0) | 10 (30.3) | 264 (34.2) | |
| Started using illicit drugs | 44 (5.5) | 2 (6.1) | 42 (5.4) |
Brazil, 2020
N = 3486