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. 2022 Sep 1;52:101641. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101641

Table 2.

Associations between sexual/gender and ethnic (including migrant and refugee) identities and binary health and well-being in 157,414 individuals aged 16-84 years from the Swedish National Public Health Survey (2018 and 2020). Estimates are from multiple logistic and linear regression models (models adjusted for sex, age, and educational level).

General health Mental wellbeing (WEMWBS)1 Mental ill-health2 Sucidal ideation (lifetime) Suicide attempts Risk alcohol use Risk gambling Drug use
OR (95% CI) β (95% CI) OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI) OR (95% CI)
Number of yes 7722 N/A 15118 14185 3803 22347 4254 2487
White heterosexual Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref Ref
Number of yes 415 N/A 1162 1668 654 1037 171 373
White Sexual/gender minority 2·22 (1·82–2·71) -1·66 (-1·93–-1·38) 2·15 (1·89–2·44) 3·39 (3·02–3·82) 3·84 (3·23–4·55) 1·16 (1·01–1·33) 1·24 (0·91–1·70) 1·90 (1·54–2·35)
Number of yes 370 N/A 789 461 187 184 283 71
Migrant heterosexual 1·56 (1·28–1·90) -0·42 (-0·69–-0·14) 1·55 (1·34–1·80) 0·79 (0·66–0·95) 1·08 (0·82–1·43) 0·19 (0·15–0·24) 1·84 (1·45–2·34) 0·43 (0·29–0·65)
Number of yes 20 N/A 66 47 26 17 27 15
Migrant Sexual /gender minority 1·11 (0.50–2.46) -0·02 (-0·98–0·95) 2·02 (1·23–3·33) 1·29 (0·73–2·29) 2·82 (1·30–6·15) 0·21 (0·09–0·51) 1·74 (0·85–3·56) 0·94 (0·37–2·42)
Number of yes 278 N/A 570 475 178 315 246 71
Refugee heterosexual 1·37 (1·10–1·69) -0·08 (-0·300·15) 1·10 (0·94–1·28) 0·87 (0·74–1·03) 1·18 (0·90–1·54) 0·40 (0·33–0·49) 1·88 (1·49–2·37) 0.50 (0·33–0·75)
Number of yes 16 N/A 53 62 30 31 13 12
Refugee Sexual/gender minority 1·85 (0·81–4·23) -0·08 (-0·990·82) 1·44 (0·86–2·41) 2·42 (1·44–4·08) 2·07 (0·94–4·55) 0·80 (0·42–1·53) 2·12 (0·85–5·29) 1·70 (0·64–4·49)

Text in bold indicates estimates with 95% CI that do not include 1 2 Short version of the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS) 3Assessed using the Kessler-6 and GHQ-5 instruments.