Comparison of Lifetime Suicide Attempts and Recent Suicidal/Self-Harming Thoughts Among Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Utahns: Results from a Population-Based Survey

Objective We sought to be the first published article to report differences in population-representative prevalence of suicidal thoughts and attempts by sexual orientation.Method Data from Utah’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) collected for 2016 (N = 10,988) and 2017 (N = 10,251) were examined to determine differences in the prevalence of suicidal thoughts in the past 2 weeks and the lifetime prevalence of suicide attempts...