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PSYCHOLOGY<br />

Foto: Fernando @cferdo_unsplash.com<br />

QUEERS MORE<br />

VULNERABLE TO<br />

LONELINESS<br />

ENGLISH<br />

For over a year now, the pandemic has shaken<br />

our lives. A new study by the Charité has<br />

examined how Corona has changed our dayto-day<br />

life. One focus of the study was the living<br />

situation of queer people, asking the question:<br />

who is most vulnerable to loneliness?<br />

In early March,<br />

the Charité<br />

University Hospital<br />

in <strong>Berlin</strong> published the<br />

preliminary results of the study<br />

which examined the situation of people in<br />

Germany during the Covid-19 pandemic.<br />

One focus of the study was on lesbian, gay,<br />

bisexual, asexual, trans* and inter* people<br />

and their experience of the crisis. The study<br />

is headed by Prof. Dr. Wolfram Herrmann. So<br />

far, two waves of surveys have been carried<br />

out online: the first in March and April of last<br />

year and the second in January and February<br />

of this year. A total of almost 7,000 people<br />

were interviewed, of whom over two thirds<br />

identified as LGBTIQ*. Most of the respondents<br />

were between 18 and 65 years old.<br />

The results<br />

• Although social contacts decreased for<br />

the entire group over the past year, cishetero-dya<br />

people still had slightly more<br />

social contacts than queer people.<br />

• While there has been more contact with<br />

family than usual, cis-hetero-dya people<br />

have been in closer contact with their<br />

families than queers over the past year.<br />

The study also shows that you are more<br />

likely to experience loneliness if you fulfill<br />

one or more of the following factors: live<br />

without a partner, child, or alone, are under<br />

65 and/or are LGBTIQ*. Asexual, trans*<br />

and/or non-binary people are particularly<br />

prone to loneliness among queers.<br />

• People who went to psychotherapy<br />

reported that the sessions were both<br />

shorter and less frequent.<br />

• The participants claimed they would like<br />

more support on topics such as childcare,<br />

masks, vaccinations, financial support,<br />

psychotherapy and digital psychological<br />

counselling.<br />

RECOMMENDATIONS BY THE<br />

CHARITÉ<br />

• Support to help combat loneliness should<br />

be particularly focused on trans*,<br />

non-binary and asexual people.<br />

• General practitioners should ask patients<br />

who are undergoing psychotherapeutic<br />

treatment whether they need more<br />

support. They should also address<br />

queer patients in particular about their<br />

loneliness and, if necessary, refer them to<br />

LGBTIQ* organizations. (ts,mb)<br />

<strong>CHECK</strong> BERLIN/BRANDENBURG <strong>#5</strong><br />

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