Lifetime prevalence of suicidal ideation among men who have sex with men: a meta-analysis

BMC Psychiatry

Table 1 Characteristics of the studies included in this meta-analysis

First author	Year of publication	Location of study	Sample source	Sampling method	Number of MSM with suicidal ideation	Sample size	Quality of study
Cochran [49]	2000	USA	Population-based	Random sampling	32	78	Moderate
Mathy [12]	2002	Worldwide	Population-based	Internet	878	3887	Moderate
Botnick [50]	2002	Canada	Community-based	Not reported	150	345	Moderate
Warner [51]	2004	United Kingdom	Community-based	Snowball sampling	357	741	Moderate
de Graaf [8]	2006	Netherlands	Population-based	Random sampling	33	82	Moderate
Sheridan [52]	2009	Lao People’s Democratic Republic	Community-based	Venue-day-time sampling	90	540	Moderate
Brennan [53]	2010	Canada	Population-based	Random sampling	268	948	Moderate
Wang [14]	2012	Switzerland	Community-based	Random sampling	316	571	Moderate
Deuba [54]	2013	Nepal	Community-based	Snowball sampling	159	339	Moderate
Wang [34]	2013	Switzerland	Community-based	Random sampling	154	276	Moderate
Chen [55]	2015	China	Community-based	Snowball sampling	398	1530	Low
Ferlatte [56]	2015	Canada	Community-based	Internet	4180	8382	Low
Parker [57]	2015	Estonia	Community-based	Internet	118	265	Moderate
Blosnich [58]	2016	USA	Population-based	Random sampling	269	756	Moderate
Hottes [59]	2016	Canada	Population-based	Random sampling	1289	4675	Moderate
Mu [47]	2016	China	Community-based	Respondent-driven sampling	148	807	Moderate
Hladik [60]	2016	Uganda	Community-based	Respondent-driven sampling	270	608	Moderate
Stahlman [10]	2016	Gambia, Togo, Burkina Faso	Community-based	Respondent-driven sampling and snowball sampling	205	1555	Moderate
Kohlbrenner [61]	2016	Nepal	Community-based	Respondent-driven sampling	60	282	Moderate

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