ReviewJournal of midwifery & women's health2018
Health Care-Related Correlates of Cervical Cancer Screening among Sexual Minority Women: An Integrative Review.
Review in Journal of midwifery & women's health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Exploring Women's Attitudes Towards Cervical Cancer Screening and Their Association with Life Satisfaction and General Life Attitudes: A Systematic Review.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2026Pooled it
- Lack of Awareness, Body Confidence and Connotations of Sex: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Barriers Affecting the Decision to Attend Initial Cervical Cancer Screening.The journal of behavioral health services & research · 2023Article
- Difference in Pap test uptake between women who have sex with women and other women in France: A comparative survey of 2032 women.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- Cervical Cancer Risk and Prevention Practices Among Sexual Minority Women with Criminal-Legal System Involvement.Annals of LGBTQ public and population health · 2022Article
- Human Papillomavirus Infection: Knowledge, Risk Perceptions and Behaviors among SMW and AFAB.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- 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 orientation inequalities during provider-patient interactions in provider encouragement of sexual and reproductive health care.Preventive medicine · 2019Article
- Review
- "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
introductionSexual minority women (SMW; lesbian, bisexual, nonheterosexual women) may have lower rates of cervical cancer screening than heterosexual women. Health care-related factors may explain some of the variation in cervical cancer screening rates among SMW. We aimed to synthesize published evidence of health care-related correlates of cervical cancer screening among SMW.
methodsWe searched PubMed, CINAHL, and PsycINFO databases for English-language studies published between January 2000 and March 2017 that 1) assessed sexual identity or the sexual partners of female participants, 2) included cervical cancer screening as a main outcome of interest, and 3) measured at least one health care-related variable in addition to cervical cancer screening. We excluded articles that 1) reported on non-US samples or 2) did not report original research. We reviewed the sample, methods, and findings of 17 studies. We then summarized current knowledge about health care-related factors across 3 categories and generated recommendations for clinical practice and future research.
resultsSeveral health care-related factors such as previous contraception use, having a primary care provider, knowledge of screening recommendations, and disclosing sexual orientation to providers were consistently positively associated with cervical cancer screening. Three groups of factors-previous health care use, health care provider-related factors, and belief-related factors-account for a substantial part of the variation in cervical cancer screening among SMW. DISCUSSION: Several gaps in knowledge remain that could be addressed by recruiting more diverse samples of SMW with improved generalizability. Clinicians and clinical institutions can address factors associated with low rates of screening among SMW by preventing sexual orientation-based discrimination, inviting sexual orientation disclosure, and offering cervical cancer screening to SMW at a variety of health care encounters. Future research should examine how the location of care and health care provider type affect SMW's cervical cancer screening behaviors and should test the effectiveness of health care interventions designed to address sexual orientation-related disparities.
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