scholarly journals Changes in Sexual Identity and Associations With Alcohol Use and Depression Among Young Adult Sexual Minority Women

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (6) ◽  
pp. 623-630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian A. Feinstein ◽  
Isaac C. Rhew ◽  
Kimberley A. Hodge ◽  
Tonda L. Hughes ◽  
Debra Kaysen
2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 885-893 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana M. Litt ◽  
Melissa A. Lewis ◽  
Isaac C. Rhew ◽  
Kimberley A. Hodge ◽  
Debra L. Kaysen

2017 ◽  
Vol 85 (5) ◽  
pp. 424-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac C. Rhew ◽  
Cynthia A. Stappenbeck ◽  
Michele Bedard-Gilligan ◽  
Tonda Hughes ◽  
Debra Kaysen

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-335
Author(s):  
Margaret M. Paschen-Wolff ◽  
Jennifer M. Putney ◽  
Thomas Corbeil ◽  
Tse-Hwei Choo ◽  
Tonda L. Hughes

Sexual minority women (SMW) report high rates of hazardous drinking (HD), treatment utilization that is not commensurate with need, and low perceived alcohol use severity. This study examined SMW's drinking problem concerns by sexual identity and other demographic characteristics, and the strength of associations between endorsement of unique HD indicators and drinking problem concerns. Data were from a supplemental sample of SMW added in Wave 3 of the longitudinal, community-based Chicago Health and Life Experiences of Women (CHLEW) study. HD was measured using a validated 13-item HD Index (HDI). Multivariable logistic regression models examined independent associations between past-five-year drinking problem concerns and each HD indicator. Twelve HD indicators were significantly associated with past-five-year drinking problem concerns, adjusting for age and sexual identity. Adjusted odds ratios varied from 2.44 for driving drunk to 15.52 for drinking first thing in the morning. After adjusting for number of HD indicators endorsed, associations were no longer significant, indicating that number of endorsed indicators was a more important predictor of drinking problem concerns than were individual HD indicators. Early intervention and harm reduction strategies could support SMW in addressing salient aspects of HD before progression to alcohol use disorder.


2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly F. Balsam ◽  
Debra L. Kaysen ◽  
Jennifer L. Kirk ◽  
Michael A. Richards ◽  
Kim Hodge ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 179-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey Zimmerman ◽  
Doyanne A. Darnell ◽  
Isaac C. Rhew ◽  
Christine M. Lee ◽  
Debra Kaysen

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa L. Lindley ◽  
Katrina M. Walsemann ◽  
Jarvis W. Carter

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily J. Youatt ◽  
Lisa H. Harris ◽  
Gary W. Harper ◽  
Nancy K. Janz ◽  
José A. Bauermeister

Author(s):  
Stefanie Mollborn ◽  
Aubrey Limburg ◽  
Bethany G. Everett

AbstractSexual minority women face a plethora of structural, socioeconomic, and interpersonal disadvantages and stressors. Research has established negative associations between women’s sexual minority identities and both their own health and their infants’ birth outcomes. Yet a separate body of scholarship has documented similarities in the development and well-being of children living with same-sex couples relative to those living with similarly situated different-sex couples. This study sought to reconcile these literatures by examining the association between maternal sexual identity and child health at ages 5–18 using a US sample from the full population of children of sexual minority women, including those who identify as mostly heterosexual, bisexual, or lesbian, regardless of partner sex or gender. Analyses using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = 8978) followed women longitudinally and examined several measures of their children’s health, including general health and specific developmental and physical health conditions. Analyses found that children of mostly heterosexual and bisexual women experienced health disadvantages relative to children of heterosexual women, whereas the few children of lesbian women in our sample evidenced a mixture of advantages and disadvantages. These findings underscore that to understand sexual orientation disparities and the intergenerational transmission of health, it is important to incorporate broad measurement of sexual orientation that can capture variation in family forms and in sexual minority identities.


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