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The present study aims to describe patterns of mental illness and psychoactive substance use in Hijra subjects and study their association with gender experience and psychosocial adversity.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Fifty self-identified Hijras availing HIV-prevention services in New Delhi, India, were interviewed. Data on mental disorders, psychoactive substance use, quality of life, discrimination, empowerment, violence and gender identity were assessed using structured instruments.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Subjects were mostly in their mid-twenties, and had joined the Hijra community in their mid-teens. More subjects (46%) were involved in begging than in traditional Hijra roles (38%). Sex work was reported by 28% subjects. The rates of lifetime mental illness was 38%, most commonly alcohol abuse (26%); others had anxiety or depressive disorders (8% each), somatoform disorders (6%) and bulimia nervosa ( n = 1). Disempowerment was mostly experienced in domains of autonomy and community participation; 52% had experienced sexual or psychological violence. Discrimination was attributed to gender (100%), appearance (28%) or sexual orientation (28%). There were negative correlations between the physical domain of WHO-QOL and physical violence and depression scores; and between discrimination and WHO-QOL environmental, physical and psychological domains.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This Hijra group showed high rates of mental disorder and substance involvement, related to QOL domains and experiences of discrimination and disempowerment.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1177\/0020764020950775","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,20]],"date-time":"2020-08-20T07:56:37Z","timestamp":1597910197000},"page":"290-297","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":32,"title":["Mental illnesses and related vulnerabilities in the Hijra community: A cross-sectional study from India"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"67","author":[{"given":"Deepak","family":"Sartaj","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychiatry, AIIMS New Delhi, New Delhi, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4422-4036","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vijay","family":"Krishnan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychiatry, AIIMS Rishikesh, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1765-1462","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ravindra","family":"Rao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychiatry, AIIMS New Delhi, New Delhi, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Atul","family":"Ambekar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychiatry, AIIMS New Delhi, New Delhi, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Neeraj","family":"Dhingra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National AIDS Control Organisation, New Delhi, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Pratap","family":"Sharan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychiatry, AIIMS New Delhi, New Delhi, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr1-0020764020950775","volume-title":"Perspectives on Arabic linguistics XVII - XVIII: Papers from the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Annual Symposia on Arabic Linguistics ; [held in Alexandria, Egypt in May of 2003 and at the University of Oklahoma in March of 2004]","author":"Alhawary M. 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