Depression and thoughts of self-harm or suicide among gender and sexually diverse people in a regional Australian community.

ISSUES ADDRESSED: There is a paucity of data regarding depression and thoughts of self-harm or suicide among gender and sexually diverse (GSD) people living within Australian regional/rural locations. This study aims to elucidate these issues and fill a critical gap. METHODS: The sample included 91 GSD people from a regional community in South-West Queensland utilising the PHQ-9 to determine presence/severity of depression and self-harm/suicide ideation. These data were drawn from a larger health and wellbeing survey. Raw mean scores were calculated to determine prevalence/severity of clinical symptoms. Bayesian ordinal regression models were employed to analyse between-subgroup differences in depression and self-harm/suicide ideation. RESULTS: Overall, 80.2% of GSD sample experienced depression (35.2% severe, 45.1% mild/moderate) and 41.8% experienced self-harm/suicide ideation in the past two-weeks. Trans and nonbinary people experienced higher levels of depressions than sexually diverse cisgender people. Pansexual and bisexual people experienced higher levels of depression than gay people. Trans people experienced higher prevalence of self-harm/suicide ideation than cisgender and nonbinary people, with no differences between sexuality subgroups. CONCLUSIONS: These findings contribute to deeper and more nuanced insights regarding clinically salient depressive and self-harm/suicide ideation symptoms among trans, nonbinary, bisexual, pansexual and queer people in regional Australian communities, with the aim to ultimately reduce mental health prevalence, improve mental health outcomes and health promotion among GSD people. SO WHAT?: The current findings revealed GSD people experience high prevalence of depression and self-harm/suicide ideation indicating tailored mental health awareness-raising, training and health promotion is warranted to enhance psychological support.

Affect and conation in second language learning: Survey data from Ukrainian learners of English.

This article presents a dataset concerned with second language (L2) learning [1]. We investigated two affective variables (i.e., peer support [PS] and foreign language anxiety [FLA]) and one conative variable (i.e., willingness to communicate [WTC]). A total of 387 adult Ukrainian learners of English (ULEs) completed an online survey. The main items in the survey were 22 Likert-type items, each with response options ranging from 1 = 'strongly disagree' to 5 = 'strongly agree'. The dataset includes the numerical responses of the participants to these items, plus their genders and ages. It also includes the participants' written responses to one open question. This dataset can be used to explore the correlational or causal relationships among PS, FLA and WTC in L2 learning.