ArticleSexuality research & social policy : journal of NSRC : SR & SP2017
Sexual Health Care Services among Young Adult Sexual Minority Women.
Article in Sexuality research & social policy : journal of NSRC : SR & SP, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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18 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Mapping the missing: a scoping review identifying critically underrepresented LGBTQI+ youth within online sexual, reproductive, and transgender healthcare research.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2025Article
- Being Out: Impact of Disclosure on Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Receipt in a Sample of Sexual Minority Women and Gender Diverse Youth.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2025Article
- Sexual and mental health disparities among young sexual minority women compared to exclusively heterosexual women: a national study.Frontiers in global women's health · 2025Article
- Factors that impact assigned female sexual minority individuals health care experiences: A qualitative descriptive study.American journal of sexuality education · 2024Article
- HPV Testing Behaviors and Willingness to Use HPV Self-sampling at Home Among African American (AA) and Sub-Saharan African Immigrant (SAI) Women.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2022Article
- Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Among Transgender and Gender Diverse People in the United States: An Integrative Review.Transgender health · 2022Review
- Dyadic Intervention for Sexually Transmitted Infection Prevention in Urban Adolescents and Young Adults (The SEXPERIENCE Study): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Human Papillomavirus Infection: Knowledge, Risk Perceptions and Behaviors among SMW and AFAB.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Disclosure of male attraction to primary care clinicians by adolescent sexual minority males.Sexuality research & social policy : journal of NSRC : SR & SP · 2022Article
- Building Families Through Healthcare: Experiences of Lesbians Using Reproductive Services.Journal of patient experience · 2022Article
- Improving Research, Policy, and Practice to Address Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Needs During Emerging Adulthood.Nursing for women's health · 2021Article
- Sexual Identity and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Awareness of Heart Attack and Stroke Symptoms: Findings From the National Health Interview Survey.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2021Article
- Cervical Cancer Screening and Human Papillomavirus Vaccination among Korean Sexual Minority Women by Sex of Their Sexual Partners.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Sexual Minority Women's Experiences With Sexual Identity Disclosure in Contraceptive Care.Obstetrics and gynecology · 2019Article
- Association of Pregnancy History and Cervical Cancer Screening in a Community Sample of Sexual Minority Women.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2019Article
- Health Care-Related Correlates of Cervical Cancer Screening among Sexual Minority Women: An Integrative Review.Journal of midwifery & women's health · 2018Review
- "Give me the sense that I matter:" Queer women's recommendations for an ideal cervical cancer screening exam and pathways to screening equity.Women's health (London, England)Article
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Abstract
Young adult sexual minority women (YSMW) are at elevated risk for negative reproductive health outcomes, yet are less likely than heterosexual peers to utilize preventive health care. Medical and public health policy organizations advocate sexual orientation disclosure ("coming out") to health care providers as a strategy for increasing service utilization among YSMW. Limited research explores relationships between disclosure and receipt of sexual health services. YSMW (N=285) ages 21-24 participated in an online survey assessing their health behaviors and care utilization. We employed multivariable logistic regression models to examine the association between receipt of sexual health services and sexual orientation disclosure to provider, after adjusting for sociodemographic covariates. Thirty-five percent of YSMW were out to their provider. Less than half the sample had received Pap screening or STI testing in the previous year; approximately 15% had received at least one dose of the HPV vaccination. Disclosure was associated with increased likelihood of Pap screening (OR=2.66, p<.001) and HPV vaccination (OR=4.30, p<.001), but was not significantly associated with STI testing. Promoting coming out to providers may be a promising approach to increase sexual health care use among YSMW. Future research should explore causal relationships between these factors.
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