Mental health, potential mory strsors and rilience: evince om a cross-sectnal survey of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex wh men wh the Celtic natns | BMC Public Health | Full Text

Gay, bisexual and other men who have sex wh men (GBMSM) are at a greater risk of mental health problems, such as anxiety and prsn, than heterosexual adults. Numero factors and strsors have been reported to impact men’s mental health, although has been suggted that rilience uld have a protective effect. The aim of this study is to explore mental health, mory strsors, and rilience among a large onle cross-sectnal survey of GBMSM the Celtic natns. Data for this cross-sectnal study were llected om the Social Media, GBMSM and Sexual and Holistic Health (SMMASH2) self-report onle survey. Participants (n = 3077) were reced via gay socsexual media Stland, Wal, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland. Bary logistic regrsn analys were nducted to intify factors that creased the odds of morate-to-severe anxiety and prsn. Potentially relevant variabl (p < 0.05) were rried forward hierarchal logistic regrsn analys. The prevalence of morate-to-severe anxiety and prsn was 19.9 and 14.4%, rpectively. Havg a disabily (OR = 1.73) and havg fancial worri sometim/all of the time (OR = 1.93) creased the odds of havg morate-to-severe prsn and anxiety, rpectively. No mory strsors were associated wh prsn, whereas experiencg any form of relatnship abe the last 12 months signifintly creased the odds of anxiety (OR = 1.50). Rilience, namely a sense of herence, had a protective effect and signifintly rced the odds of morate-to-severe prsn (OR = 0.85) and anxiety (OR = 0.89). Disabily and fancial worri were associated wh creased prsn and anxiety, rpectively, while rilience had a protective effect for GBMSM the SMMASH2 study. Future rearch is need to better unrstand the role of rilience and the challeng and strs of everyday life and tersectg health problems. Future rearch is also need that rporat the perspectiv of those most affected by mental ill-health to -velop effective solutns that rpond to their ntextual surroundgs.