Understanding Substance Use and Suicide Risk Among LGBTQ+ College Students Post‐COVID‐19

Key Points

• The research aims to understand the relationship between substance use and suicide risk among LGBTQ+ college students post-COVID-19.
• Examined substance use and suicide risk in LGBTQ+ college students
• Sample size of 192 participants
• Assessed frequency of substance use including alcohol, marijuana, and others
• Evaluated clinical cutoff scores for suicide behavior
• Alcohol and marijuana are the most commonly used substances among participants
• Approximately half of the participants met clinical cutoff scores for suicide behavior
• No significant association between substance use frequency and proximal suicide risk factors
• Significant positive associations between suicide behavior scores and tobacco, marijuana, and recreational drug use frequency

Abstract