Characteristics of emerging adulthood may make college students less likely to engage in COVID-protective behaviors, a public health concern given that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ+) students may be particularly vulnerable to complications related to COVID-19. To identify individual and contextual factors related to COVID-protective behaviors among a sample of LGBTQ+ college students in the United States, we examined differences in COVID-protective and -risk behaviors by gender identity, living arrangement, statewide stay at home orders, and political liberalism of the student’s current state. Although engagement in COVID-protective behaviors was high overall, students who identified as men, did not live with a parent, lived in a state without a stay at home order, and/or lived in a less liberal state engaged in fewer COVID-protective behaviors and more frequent COVID-risk behaviors. Findings underscore the importance of clear public health messaging around COVID-protective behaviors that targets especially vulnerable college students.

新兴成年期的特征可能使大学生不太可能参与 COVID 保护行为，这是一个公共卫生问题，因为女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、跨性别者、酷儿和质疑 (LGBTQ+) 学生可能特别容易受到与 COVID 相关的并发症的影响—— 19. 为了确定美国 LGBTQ+ 大学生样本中与 COVID 保护行为相关的个体和背景因素，我们检查了性别认同、生活安排、全州居家令和政治因素在 COVID 保护和风险行为方面的差异学生当前状态的自由主义。尽管总体而言，COVID 保护行为的参与度很高，但被认定为男性的学生，没有与父母同住，住在没有居家令的州，和/或生活在一个不太自由的州，参与较少的 COVID 保护行为和更频繁的 COVID 风险行为。调查结果强调了围绕针对特别脆弱的大学生的 COVID 保护行为的明确公共卫生信息的重要性。