ArticleJournal of women's health (2002)2019
Do Sexual Minorities Receive Appropriate Sexual and Reproductive Health Care and Counseling?
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- Are the Effects of Poor Survey Measurement of Sexual Identity on Estimated Associations between Sexual Identity and Health-Related Measures Moderated by the State-Level Policy Environment?Journal of homosexuality · 2025Article
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- Holistic Sexual-Reproductive Healthcare Services and Needs for Queer Individuals: Healthcare Providers' Perspectives.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- How a "Something Else" Response Option for Sexual Identity Affects National Survey Estimates of Associations Between Sexual Identity, Reproductive Health, and Substance Use.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Article
- Factors that impact assigned female sexual minority individuals health care experiences: A qualitative descriptive study.American journal of sexuality education · 2024Article
- Sexual minorities are not a homogeneous population: health disparity differences based on residence in rural versus urban settings.Rural and remote health · 2023Article
- Disparities in Sexually Transmitted Infection/HIV Testing, Contraception, and Emergency Contraception Care Among Adolescent Sexual Minority Women Who Are Racial/Ethnic Minorities.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2023Article
- Quality of Sexuality during Pregnancy, We Must Do Something-Survey Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Observational
- An intersectional analysis of contraceptive types chosen among sexual minority women: A nationally representative study.Contraception · 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
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Abstract
contextSexual minority women (SMW) are less likely to use sexual and reproductive health care services and receive contraceptive counseling than their heterosexual peers. The role of recent sexual partners and the type of information provided when SMW access health services are unclear.
methodsThe National Survey of Family Growth 2006-2015 was used to document sexual orientation disparities in the use of sexual and reproductive health services and counseling in clinical settings among 20,703 women. We incorporate data on sexual partners in the past 12 months to investigate whether recent sex with men was associated with health care seeking behavior and reproductive counseling.
resultsEight-seven percent of the sample reported a male partner in the past 12 months, including 83% of bisexual women and 17% of lesbian women. In clinical settings, 48% of women reported birth control counseling at pregnancy or Pap tests, 49% reported a condom consult at an sexually transmitted diseases (STD) screening, and 9% reported emergency contraception counseling at a Pap test. Logistic regression models show that lesbian women were less likely than heterosexual women to have been given a contraceptive prescription or received contraceptive counseling, but were more likely to have received an STD test. In clinical settings, lesbian women were less likely to receive contraceptive counseling at pregnancy tests, and lesbian women without male partners were less likely to have a counseling about condom use at STD-related visits compared with heterosexual women.
conclusionsAt least some women and providers adjust health care seeking behaviors and information provided to women based upon recent sexual behavior histories. More work is needed to understand why disparities in reproductive health services and contraceptive use persist among SMW who engage in sex with men.
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