Psychological distress by sexual orientation and gender U.S. 2015

This statistic depicts the percentage of U.S. adults that experienced serious psychological distress within the past 30 days as of 2015, by sexual orientation and gender. According to the data, among straight women, about 4 percent had experienced serious psychological distress within the past 30 days.

Percentage of U.S. adults that experienced serious psychological distress in the past 30 days as of 2015, by sexual orientation and gender

Characteristic	Men	Women	Both sexes
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Release date

November 2016

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2015

Number of respondents

232,324 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Supplementary notes

Six questions ask how often during the past 30 days a respondent experienced certain symptoms of psychological distress: feeling so sad that nothing could cheer you up, nervous, restless or fidgety, hopeless, worthless, that everything was an effort. The response codes (0-4) of the six items were summed to yield a scale with a 0-24 range. A value of 13 or more for this scale is used here to define serious psychological distress.

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