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Factors Associated with Sexual Orientation and Gender Disparities in Chronic Pain Among U.S. Adolescents and Young Adults.
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- Latent class analysis of sexual behavior patterns and multidimensional health characteristics among Korean adolescents: a cross-sectional study.Child health nursing research · 2026Article
- Sexual Identity Differences in Chronic Pain: Results from the 2019 to 2021 National Health Interview Survey.American journal of preventive medicine · 2024Article
- Pediatric sexual orientation and gender identity data collection in the electronic health record.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2022Article
- Prevalence of Chronic Pelvic Pain by Sexual Orientation in a Large Cohort of Young Women in the United States.The journal of sexual medicine · 2022Article
- Analysis of Reported Health Care Use by Sexual Orientation Among Youth.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- Towards health equity for people experiencing chronic pain and social marginalization.International journal for equity in health · 2021Article
- Disparities in the Treatment of the LGBTQ Population in Chronic Pain Management.Journal of pain research · 2021Article
- Explaining Disparities in Severe Headache and Migraine Among Sexual Minority Adults in the United States, 2013-2018.The Journal of nervous and mental disease · 2020Article
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- Care Disparities in Chronic Pain.Current pain and headache reports · 2019Review
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Abstract
objectiveThis research investigated factors associated with sexual orientation disparities in chronic pain frequency among youth.
methodData were analyzed from 4534 female and 3785 male youth from Waves I-IV (1995-2009) of the U.S. National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Gender-stratified weighted logistic regression models controlled for sociodemographic characteristics and included sexual orientation (primary predictor) and frequency of three types of chronic pain (outcomes). Models with sexual orientation only were compared to models with factors hypothesized to increase or decrease risk of pain. Significant odds ratios (OR) for chronic pain frequency (daily/weekly vs. rarely) with confidence intervals (CI) and associated factors are reported.
resultsCompared to same-gender heterosexual females, mostly heterosexuals were more likely to report headaches (OR=1.40, CI=1.09, 1.79) and mostly heterosexuals and bisexuals were more likely to report muscle/joint pain (mostly heterosexual OR=1.69, CI=1.29, 2.20; bisexual OR=1.87, CI=1.03, 3.38). Compared to same-gender heterosexual males, gay males were more likely to report headaches (OR=2.00, CI=1.06, 3.82), but less likely to report muscle/joint pain (OR=0.28, CI=0.11, 0.74). Significant disparities were attenuated by up to 16% when associated factors were added to the model.
conclusionSexual orientation disparities in chronic pain were partially explained by associated factors, but more research is needed to develop intervention and prevention strategies.
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