ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2019
Measuring Discomfort in Health Research Relative to Everyday Events and Routine Care: An Application to Sexual and Gender Minority Youth.
Article in The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Ethical Aspects of Involving Adolescents in HIV Research: A Systematic Review of the Empiric Literature.The Journal of pediatrics · 2023Pooled it
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- Body Shame Predicts Healthcare Discomfort and Avoidance in College Women Through the Mechanism of Low Body Responsiveness.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- Reactions to Sexual, Substance Use, and Mental Health Surveys Among Rural Sexual Minority Men.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2025Article
- Comfort of Sexual and Behavioral Health Survey Research Participation among Undergraduate Students: Findings from a Random Sample of a Southern University.Journal of empirical research on human research ethics : JERHRE · 2025Article
- The CAN-DO-IT Model: a Process for Developing and Refining Online Recruitment in HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health Research.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2020Review
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Abstract
purposeUnderstanding how sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth's comfort with research procedures compares to their comfort with everyday experiences and routine health care can help calibrate decisions about whether a study meets minimal risk criteria. We sought to quantify SGM adolescents' comfort with sexual health research relative to everyday events and activities often cited as benchmarks of minimal risk.
methodsA total of 616 SGM adolescents in the United States (mean age = 15.7 years, 41.7% racial/ethnic minority) completed online survey questions assessing sexual behavior, SGM identity, and a 53-item Measure of Adolescent Comfort with Clinical, Research, and Everyday Events that assessed comfort on a 7-point scale (1 = extremely uncomfortable and 7 = extremely comfortable).
resultsThe Everyday Events for Adolescents domain had the lowest mean comfort score (M = 3.49, standard deviation [SD] = .58) and was significantly lower than the Routine Medical and Psychological Tests domain (M = 4.43, SD = .92) and the HIV/Sexual Health Research Procedures domain (M = 4.19, SD = .94). Eleven of 17 items on the HIV/Sexual Health Research Procedures domain were ranked as more comfortable than a neutral rating of "neither comfortable nor uncomfortable." Higher levels of parental acceptance predicted greater levels of comfort across all four domains of the Measure of Adolescent Comfort with Clinical, Research, and Everyday Events. Participants who were out to their parents expressed greater comfort with both SGM Identity and Sexual Health-related procedures and events as well as HIV/Sexual Health Research Procedures.
conclusionsOverall participants expressed equal or more comfort with research procedures than with everyday life experiences. These findings indicate that common sexual health research procedures may meet minimal risk criteria among SGM adolescent populations.
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