Interpersonal Trauma, Marginalization, and Low-Resource Settings: Understanding Sexual and Gender Minority People’s Help-Seeking and Service Utilization Experiences.
Sexual and gender minority (SGM) people disproportionately experience interpersonal trauma and face significant barriers to affirmative support. This mixed-methods study explored help-seeking and care utilization among 55 SGM people who experienced sexual assault, intimate partner violence, or child...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child Sexual Abuse pp. 1 - 29 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2026
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=195568096&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 195568096 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10538712 JXA jtl: Journal of Child Sexual Abuse issn: 10538712 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2026 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 195568096 10.1080/10538712.2026.2706497 195568096 ppf: 1 ppct: 28 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Interpersonal Trauma, Marginalization, and Low-Resource Settings: Understanding Sexual and Gender Minority People’s Help-Seeking and Service Utilization Experiences. aug: au: Scheer, Jillian R. Zabelski, Sasha Epshteyn, Gabriella Girard, Rachel Cascalheira, Cory J. Shaw, Thomas J. Helminen, Emily C. Messinger, Adam M. Edwards, Katie M. affil: University of Rhode Island sug: ab: Sexual and gender minority (SGM) people disproportionately experience interpersonal trauma and face significant barriers to affirmative support. This mixed-methods study explored help-seeking and care utilization among 55 SGM people who experienced sexual assault, intimate partner violence, or childhood maltreatment and lived in low-resource areas across New York State (<italic>M</italic>age=30.47; <italic>SD</italic>=9.83; 70.9% cisgender women; 27.3% people of color; 29.1% annual income ≤$9,999). Participants completed an online needs assessment survey with quantitative and open-ended questions. Descriptive statistics described sample characteristics, help-seeking, and care utilization experiences. Conventional content analysis was employed to examine contexts surrounding experiences seeking support and utilizing services. In the past year, 38.2% sought interpersonal trauma-related mental health treatment; nearly a third lacked confidence in finding SGM-affirmative providers and experienced poor provider treatment and 18.2% experienced SGM conversion efforts in their lifetime. Qualitative data revealed five interrelated themes describing social and structural contexts that shaped help-seeking and care engagement, including (1) anticipated stigma and self-protective avoidance as barriers to help-seeking; (2) family and relational responses shape safety, disclosure, and avoidance; (3) provider validation versus invalidation shapes trust and engagement in care; (4) geographic isolation undermines safety, anonymity, and care access; and, (5) structural inequities and policy barriers reinforce mistrust and limit options. The current study’s findings offer a novel socioecological perspective on interpersonal trauma – related help-seeking among SGM people in low-resource settings, demonstrating how stigma, trust, provider interactions, geographic isolation, and structural inequities shape care-seeking pathways. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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