Professor to Explore LGBT Suicide Risk

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Professor to Explore LGBT Suicide Risk

UA professor Stephen T. Russell has received a two-year grant to look at the factors that may lead to suicide among LGBT youth.

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By La Monica Everett-Haynes, University Communications
May 22, 2008

It is widely known that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth face discrimination, but less is known about the factors that make them twice as likely to attempt suicide.

University of Arizona professor Stephen T. Russell is determined to find out using a study that gathered information about students from their teenage years through young adulthood.

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention has just provided Russell with a two-year "distinguished investigor" grant totaling nearly $100,000 that will allow him to study suicide risk among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, LGBT, youth.