Sexual orientation and symptoms of common mental disorder or low wellbeing: combined meta-analysis of 12 UK population health surveys

Table 3 Characteristics of participants identified as lesbian/gay, bisexual and ‘other’ compared to heterosexuals

	Heterosexual	Lesbian/Gay	p	Bisexual	p	‘Other’	p
Symptoms of common mental disorder (%)	16.8	26.2	<0.001	34.0	<0.001	23.8	<0.001
Anxious or depressed (%)	23.0	29.2	0.09	39.1	<0.001	43.9	<0.001
Low wellbeing score (%)	26.2	29.7	0.05	36.7	<0.001	44.2	<0.001
Age (25/50/75 percentile)	33/44/60	27/40/47	<0.001	20/34/50	<0.001	38/52/66	<0.001
Male (%)	44.1	60.1	<0.001	41.5	0.13	40.3	0.04
Ethnic minority (%)	9.0	5.7	<0.001	11.7	0.01	19.2	<0.001
University degree (%)	25.6	38.9	<0.001	27.2	0.28	11.8	<0.001
Smoker (%)	36.2	42.4	<0.001	41.8	0.001	38.2	0.26
Longstanding illness (%)	35.2	35.7	0.71	39.9	0.005	44.1	<0.001
Married/cohabiting (%)	63.0	40.0	<0.001	45.2	<0.001	54.9	<0.001