Sexual Orientation and Exposure to Violence Among U.S. Patients Undergoing Abortion.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the characteristics of patients undergoing abortion in the United States according to sexual orientation and exposure to sexual and physical violence.

Methods

Data for this observational study come from the Guttmacher Institute's 2014 Abortion Patient Survey, which obtained information from 8,380 individuals obtaining abortions at nonhospital facilities in the United States; 7,656 of those (91%) provided information on sexual orientation identity. We used simple logistic regression to assess differences between heterosexuals and three sexual minority groups-bisexual, lesbian, and something else-according to demographic characteristics and exposure to sexual and physical violence. Multivariate logistic regression was used to assess associations between sex

SUBMITTER: Jones RK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10552916 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature