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Gender and Mental Health


Cross-national associations between gender and mental disorders ...

Gender differences in mental disorders, including more anxiety-mood disorders among women and more externalizing disorders among men, are found consistently ...

The Impact of Age and Gender on Mental Health - McLean Hospital

We know women are more likely than men to have depression, anxiety, and traumatic stress-related disorders. Men are more likely to struggle with addiction.

The Gender Gap in Mental Health - News-Medical

Women have a significantly higher frequency of depression and anxiety in adulthood, while men have a larger prevalence of substance use ...

Study finds sex differences in mental illness

WASHINGTON—When it comes to mental illness, the sexes are different: Women are more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety or depression, while men ...

Men and women: statistics | Mental Health Foundation

Mental health problems affect both men and women, but not in equal measure. In England in 2014, one in six adults had a common mental health problem.

Gender and Mental Health | SpringerLink

Research on gender and mental health suggests that gender conceptions and practices push males and females to different forms of psychopathology by increasing ...

Why We Need To Pay Attention to Women's Mental Health

Newer research suggests women are more prone to psychological problems, such as depression, largely due in part to differences in the brains of men and women.

Trends and Gender Differences in Mental Disorders in Hospitalized ...

Women, for example, have a higher risk of psychiatric disorders than men (odds ratio = 2.86, P = .007). In other research, women showed a higher risk of having ...

Gender in Mental Health Research - World Health Organization (WHO)

Section Three outlines the main differences between men and women in the prevalence of various mental health disorders, including their risk for suicide, ...

13 - Gender and Mental Health: Do Men and Women Have Different ...

Some argue that women have more psychopathology than men, and some claim men have more. Others think that both genders suffer equally, but from different ...

Gender dysphoria - NHS

Gender dysphoria is a term that describes a sense of unease that a person may have because of a mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity.

What is Gender Dysphoria? - American Psychiatric Association

Gender dysphoria, which refers to psychological distress that results from an incongruence between one's sex assigned at birth and one's gender identity.

Gender differences in mental disorders begin early in life

Women have consistently higher rates of internalising disorders, for example depression, anxiety, phobias, and suicidal thoughts and attempts.

Sex and gender differences in mental disorders - The Lancet

Gender-neutral mental health research is sex and gender biased. Lancet Psychiatry. 2016; published online Nov 14.

The gender gap in adolescent mental health: A cross-national ...

Highlights. •. Girls have worse average mental health than boys across 4 measures of mental health. •. There is large heterogeneity in the size of the mental ...

Mental disorders and gender - Wikipedia

Mental disorders and gender ... Sex is correlated with the prevalence of certain mental disorders, including depression, anxiety and somatic complaints. ... For ...

Gender and Mental Health

Mental health problems are among the most important contributors to the global burden of disease and disability. Mental and neurological conditions account.

Women and mental health | Mental Health Foundation

When women find it hard to talk about difficult feelings, they tend to internalise them. This can lead to depression, eating disorders and self- ...

Men and mental health: What are we missing? - AAMC

Men in the United States die by suicide at a rate four times higher than women. And yet, men are diagnosed with depression and mood disorders at ...

Mental Health | Office on Women's Health

More than 1 in 5 women in the United States experienced a mental health condition in the past year, such as depression or anxiety. Many mental ...


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