The interaction of sexual orientation and provider-patient communication on sexual and reproductive health in a sample of U.S. women of diverse sexual orientations.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Our goal was to examine associations among provider-patient communication, past-year contraceptive use and lifetime sexually transmitted infection.

Methods

Data were analyzed cross-sectionally from 22,554 women in the Growing Up Today Study and Nurses' Health Study 3 between the follow-up period of 1996-2020. We used multivariable Poisson regression models adjusted for race/ethnicity, age in years, study cohort, and region of residence to obtain risk ratio (RR) associations and 95% confidence intervals (CI).

Results

Provider-patient communication was associated with higher likelihood of using all methods of past-year contraceptive use (RRs ranging from 1.11 to 1.63) and lifetime STI diagnosis (RRs ranging from 1.18 to 1.96). Completely heterosexual women wit

SUBMITTER: Tabaac AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8594287 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature