Table 2. List of 17 articles on the health of sexual minorities

No	Year	Authors	Primary exposure or measure	Outcome assessment	Method	Sample characteristics	Main result and significant effect association indicating adverse health effects
1	2016	Lee et al. [24]	Sexual orientation (homosexual)	Health-risk behaviors and health cognition	Youth online survey*	N=129,900, adolescent	Health risk behavior, poor health cognition.
2	2016	Cho et al. [28]	Sexual orientation (homosexual)	Stress, depression, suicidal ideation, and attempts	Online survey	N=873, MSM	Perceived stress, depression.
3	2017	Kwak et al. [25]	Sexual orientation (homosexual)	Lifestyle and suicide-related behaviors.	Youth online survey	N=3,603, adolescent	Suicidal ideation, plans, attempts, medically serious attempts.
4	2017	Yi et al. [11]	Sexual orientation (homosexual and bisexual)	Physical/mental health symptom, health-risk behaviors, suicide-related behavior	RCP1 online survey†	N=2,335, LGB	Low self-rated health, More musculoskeletal pain, depressive symptom, suicidal ideation, suicidal attempt.
5	2018	Yu et al. [26]	Sex of sexual partners (bisexual)	Disordered weight control behaviors	Youth online survey	N=67,266, adolescent	Disordered weight control behavior.
6	2019	Lee et al. [29]	Internalized Homophobia	Depressive symptoms, suicidality	RCP1 online survey	N=2,178, LGB	Depressive symptom, suicidal ideation.
7	2019	Lee et al. [30]	Discrimination	Depressive symptoms	RCP1 online survey	N=2,162, LGB	Depressive symptom.
8	2020	Kim et al. [36]	Sex of sexual partners	Cervical cancer screening and HPV	Online survey	N=671, LB (women)	Homosexual less screening and less completion of HPV vaccination than bisexual.
9	2020	Kim et al. [27]	Sexual orientation	Alcohol use behaviors	Youth online survey	N=9,014, adolescent	Alcohol use: bisexual>homosexual. Binge drinking: homosexual>bisexual, heterosexual.
10	2021	Lee et al. [32]	Sexual orientation change efforts	Depressive symptoms, suicidality	RCP1 online survey	N=2,168, LGB	Suicidal ideation and attempts.
11	2021	Kim et al. [35]	Sexual orientation	HRQoL was measured using SF-36v2	Online survey	N=736, LB (women)	Overall low mental HRQoL. Bisexual lower than homosexual.
12	2022	Lee et al. [70]	Internalized homophobia	Past 12-month HIV testing	Online survey	N=907, GB (men) with HIV (-)	Low HIV testing.
13	2022	Choo et al. [33]	Expectation of rejection	Healthcare avoidance and delay	RCP1 online survey	N=2,175, LGB	Healthcare avoidance and delay.
14	2022	Park et al. [31]	Adolescent bullying victimization due to SOGE	Adulthood suicidality and depressive symptoms	RCP1 online survey	N=2,152, LGB	Depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts.
15	2022	Choo et al. [34]	Discrimination	Poor sleep health outcomes	RCP1 online survey	N=2,192, LGB	Overall poor sleep health, discrimination experience - higher prevalence of poor sleep quality, unrestful sleep, and long sleep latency.
16	2024	Jung [37]	HIV infection (+)	COVID-19 vaccination and infection	Online survey	N=942, MSM	More COVID19 infection.
17	2024	Jung [38]	Homosexual attributes of MSM.	extent of physical distancing perceived by MSMs without HIV toward PLWH	Online survey	N=878, MSM	HIV positive acquaintances around them – less physically distance from PLWH.

Youth online survey: Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey.
RCP1 online survey: rainbow connection project 1.
MSM, men who have sex with men; LGB, lesbian, gay, and bisexual; LB, lesbian and bisexual; HRQoL, health-related quality of life; SF-36v2, 36-item Short Form Health Survey version 2.0; GB, gay and bisexual; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; SOGE, sexual orientation and gender identity; COVID-19, coronavirus disease-19; PLWH, people living with HIV.