What The Study Did: Postmortem records from the National Violent Death Reporting System were used to determine how common being bullied was among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) youth ages 10 to 19 who died by suicide compared with non-LGBTQ young people who died by suicide.
Authors: Kirsty A. Clark, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Connecticut, is the corresponding author.
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(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.0940)
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