Sexual orientation and health and well-being: Population based youth studies in Iceland

Title
Sexual orientation and health and well-being: Population based youth studies in Iceland
Publication Date
2016
Author(s)
Sveinbjornsdottir, Sigrun
Thorsteinsson, Einar Baldvin
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2065-1989
Email: ethorste@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ethorste
Arnarson, Arsaell Mar
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
University West
Place of publication
Trollhattan, Sweden
UNE publication id
une:19428
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to compare self-assessed school health and well-being of three different sexual orientation groups within the 2010 and 2014 populations of Year 10 in Iceland. Sexual orientation was classified according to romantic and/or sexual attraction and/or sexual activity and are identified as: (a) unknown, (b) heterosexual, and, (c) non-heterosexual. Data were derived from two sets of survey collections (2010 and 2014) from the Icelandic part of the Health Behavior in School-aged Children (HBSC), initiated by the World Health organization (WHO) ... HBSC surveys are administered every fourth year, and participation rate in Iceland for both these implementations were between 80 and 90% of the whole cohurts, of which 91% boys and 94% girls identified as hetersexual in 2010 and 90% of boys and 89% of girls identified as heterosexual in 2014. Health and well being was measured on both occoations through answers to eight health aspects (headache, stomack ache, back ache, sadness, irritability, nervousness, sleeping difficulties, dizzyness), rated according to frequency on a 5 point Likert scale. Results from both populations will be discussed and further information on follow up questions, administered 2014 only, comprising use of medication, also rated according to frequency.
Link
Citation
Nordic Youth Research Symposium Program, p. 110-110
Start page
110
End page
110

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