Depression and Anxiety Changes Among Sexual and Gender Minority People Coinciding with Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic

Annesa Flentje^{1

2

3}, Juno Obedin-Maliver^{4

5}, Micah E Lubensky^{6

4}, Zubin Dastur⁴, Torsten Neilands⁷, Mitchell R Lunn^{4

8}

Affiliations

¹ Community Health Systems, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. annesa.flentje@ucsf.edu.
² Alliance Health Project, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. annesa.flentje@ucsf.edu.
³ The PRIDE Study/PRIDEnet, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA. annesa.flentje@ucsf.edu.
⁴ The PRIDE Study/PRIDEnet, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁵ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁶ Community Health Systems, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁷ Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁸ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.

Observational Study

Annesa Flentje et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 Sep.

. 2020 Sep;35(9):2788-2790.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-020-05970-4. Epub 2020 Jun 17.

Annesa Flentje^{1

2

3}, Juno Obedin-Maliver^{4

5}, Micah E Lubensky^{6

4}, Zubin Dastur⁴, Torsten Neilands⁷, Mitchell R Lunn^{4

8}

¹ Community Health Systems, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. annesa.flentje@ucsf.edu.
² Alliance Health Project, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. annesa.flentje@ucsf.edu.
³ The PRIDE Study/PRIDEnet, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA. annesa.flentje@ucsf.edu.
⁴ The PRIDE Study/PRIDEnet, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁵ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁶ Community Health Systems, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁷ Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁸ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.

No abstract available

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