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An ecological approach to examine lung cancer disparities due to sexual orientationU Boehmer
Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, Crosstown Center, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Public Health 126:605-12. 2012..To determine whether there is an association between geographical areas with greater sexual minority density, defined as gay and lesbian individuals, and incidence and mortality rates for lung cancer...
Cancer and men who have sex with men: a systematic reviewUlrike Boehmer
Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Lancet Oncol 13:e545-53. 2012..Men who have sex with men are still a largely overlooked minority group in this respect. Future research should examine the effects of sexual orientation on cancer, from prevention to survivorship...- Health behaviors of cancer survivors of different sexual orientationsUlrike Boehmer
Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, Crosstown Center, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Cancer Causes Control 23:1489-96. 2012..This study identifies differences by sexual orientation in health behaviors of cancer survivors... - Anxiety and depression in breast cancer survivors of different sexual orientationsUlrike Boehmer
Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 80:382-95. 2012..g., lesbian and bisexual women) have greater levels of anxiety and depression... - Applying the Female Sexual Functioning Index to sexual minority womenUlrike Boehmer
Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 21:401-9. 2012..We apply the FSFI to a sample of women who have or prefer women as sexual partners, defined as sexual minority women, and who vary with respect to their sexual activity... - Adult health behaviors over the life course by sexual orientationUlrike Boehmer
Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Am J Public Health 102:292-300. 2012..We estimated differences in health behaviors among adults by sexual orientation... - Sexual minority status and long-term breast cancer survivorshipUlrike Boehmer
Department of Community HealthSciences, Boston University School of Public Health, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, Crosstown Center, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Women Health 52:71-87. 2012..Prior to counting on sexual minority women's interest in studies, researchers may need to educate sexual minority women about the need of breast cancer studies... - Health-related quality of life in breast cancer survivors of different sexual orientationsUlrike Boehmer
Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, Crosstown Center, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Qual Life Res 21:225-36. 2012..For this reason, this study examines the physical and mental QOL and its association with sexual orientation in a cohort of long-term nonrecurring breast cancer survivors... - Comparing sexual minority cancer survivors recruited through a cancer registry to convenience methods of recruitmentUlrike Boehmer
Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Womens Health Issues 21:345-52. 2011.... - Sexual functioning after cancer in sexual minority womenUlrike Boehmer
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA
Cancer J 15:65-9. 2009..We identify critical areas that merit further clinical and research attention and point to methodological challenges for future research on sexual functioning in sexual minority women... - Examining factors linked to overweight and obesity in women of different sexual orientationsUlrike Boehmer
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany Street, Crosstown Center 4th Floor Boston, MA 02118, USA
Prev Med 48:357-61. 2009..We hypothesized that women with a female partner have greater energy imbalance by expending less energy and have higher energy intake than women with a male partner thereby causing overweight and obesity... 
Two means of sampling sexual minority women: how different are the samples of women?Ulrike Boehmer
Social and Behavior Science Department, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J LGBT Health Res 4:143-51. 2008..Thoroughly constructed convenience samples will continue to be a useful sampling strategy to further research on this population...- Using cancer registry data for recruitment of sexual minority women: successes and limitationsUlrike Boehmer
Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 19:1289-97. 2010..To identify and recruit an unknown and presumably small subgroup of survivors, that is, lesbian or bisexual women with breast cancer... - Advance care planning by unmarried women of different sexual orientations: the importance of social supportUlrike Boehmer
Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
J Women Aging 22:306-20. 2010..For WPM, having a partner for social support was not associated with naming a health-care proxy. These insights help in the understanding of women's advance care planning... - Overweight and obesity in long-term breast cancer survivors: how does sexual orientation impact BMI?Ulrike Boehmer
Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Cancer Invest 29:220-8. 2011..Our findings in breast cancer survivors suggest that lesbians are more likely to improve their weight-related behaviors after cancer than heterosexual women... - Cancer survivorship and sexual orientationUlrike Boehmer
Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Cancer 117:3796-804. 2011..To address this information gap, the authors examined the prevalence of cancer survivorship by sexual orientation and cancer survivors' self-reported health by sexual orientation... - An ecological analysis of colorectal cancer incidence and mortality: differences by sexual orientationUlrike Boehmer
Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, 801 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA 02118, USA
BMC Cancer 11:400. 2011..To date, individual sexual orientation data are not available in cancer surveillance registries. This prevents an assessment of differences in colorectal cancer incidence and mortality by sexual orientation, using individual-level data... - Self-reported vs administrative race/ethnicity data and study resultsUlrike Boehmer
The authors are with the Department of Health Services, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Mass 01730, USA
Am J Public Health 92:1471-2. 2002 - Overweight and obesity in sexual-minority women: evidence from population-based dataUlrike Boehmer
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Mass 02118, USA
Am J Public Health 97:1134-40. 2007..We sought to determine whether lesbians have higher rates of overweight and obesity than women of other sexual orientations... - Communication about prostate cancer between men and their wivesU Boehmer
School of Public Health, Boston University, and the Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Bedford, Mass, USA
J Fam Pract 50:226-31. 2001..We explored the perceptions of men who have been treated for metastatic prostate cancer and the views of their wives regarding the changes that were caused by prostate cancer and its treatment... - Married couples' perspectives on prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment decision-makingU Boehmer
School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Psychooncology 10:147-55. 2001..Our findings suggest that physicians may be in a position to influence how men and their wives interact in reaching a treatment decision... - Twenty years of public health research: inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populationsUlrike Boehmer
Ulrike Boehmer is with Boston University, School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Public Health 92:1125-30. 2002..This study determined to what extent lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations have been studied over the past 20 years of public health research... - Physicians don't ask, sometimes patients tell: disclosure of sexual orientation among women with breast carcinomaUlrike Boehmer
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cancer 101:1882-9. 2004..The disclosure of sexual orientation to physicians is uncertain and the reasons are poorly understood. The current study was undertaken to describe the disclosure of sexual orientation among sexual minority women with breast carcinoma... - A pilot study to determine support during the pre-treatment phase of early prostate cancerUlrike Boehmer
Department of Health Services at Boston University School of Public Health, USA
Psychooncology 14:442-9. 2005..This will reveal which patients rely almost exclusively on physicians, when deciding on a certain treatment... - Facing erectile dysfunction due to prostate cancer treatment: perspectives of men and their partnersUlrike Boehmer
Department of Health Services, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cancer Invest 22:840-8. 2004..Physicians addressing these issues with men and their partners should provide resources for counseling... - Sexual minority women's coping and psychological adjustment after a diagnosis of breast cancerUlrike Boehmer
Department of Health Services, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 14:214-24. 2005..To determine factors that influence sexual minority women's coping responses and adjustment to breast cancer... - Support providers of sexual minority women with breast cancer: who they are and how they impact the breast cancer experienceUlrike Boehmer
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
J Psychosom Res 59:307-14. 2005..The aim of this study was to identify the factors associated with adjustment to breast cancer among sexual minority women with breast cancer and their support person... - Breast reconstruction following mastectomy for breast cancer: the decisions of sexual minority womenUlrike Boehmer
Department of Health Services, Boston University School of Public Health, MA, USA
Plast Reconstr Surg 119:464-72. 2007..The purpose of this study is to explore which issues sexual minority women considered when making decisions on reconstructive surgery and to understand the influence and perspectives of these women's most important support persons... - Sexual minority women's interactions with breast cancer providersUlrike Boehmer
Boston University, School of Public Health, Department of Health Services, Boston, MA, USA
Women Health 44:41-58. 2006..These findings suggest that physicians of either gender can develop the skills needed to improve quality of breast cancer care for sexual minority women... - Oral health of ambulatory care patientsU Boehmer
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Mil Med 166:171-8. 2001..CONCLUSION: Compared with national studies, VA patients appear to have worse oral health. The importance of sociodemographic factors and dental utilization that has been found in other studies applies to veterans' oral health as well... - Religion and mental health among women veterans with sexual assault experienceB H Chang
Boston University School of Public Health and Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Massachusetts, USA
Int J Psychiatry Med 31:77-95. 2001..In this study we examined the buffering effect of religion on mental health and depression for women who report experiencing sexual assault while in the military... - The combined effect of relaxation response and acupuncture on quality of life in patients with HIV: a pilot studyBei Hung Chang
Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02130, USA
J Altern Complement Med 13:807-15. 2007..In light of the presumed shared features of acupuncture and the RR, we conducted a pilot study to examine the effects of adding the RR to usual acupuncture treatment on improving the QoL of HIV/AIDS patients... - Relaxation response with acupuncture trial in patients with HIV: feasibility and participant experiencesBei Hung Chang
Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02130, USA
J Altern Complement Med 13:719-24. 2007..In this paper, we report on the feasibility and patients' experience from the study participation... - Tooth retention as an indicator of quality dental care: development of a risk adjustment modelJudith A Jones
VA Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital Bedford, and Department of General Dentistry, Boston University School of Dental Medicine, Massachusetts, USA
Med Care 41:937-49. 2003..Thus, receipt of a root canal (vs. a tooth extraction) is a useful indicator of the quality of dental care. However, use of this quality measure without adjusting for the severity of oral disease could lead to spurious conclusions... - Racial variations in dental procedures: the case of root canal therapy versus tooth extractionNancy R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bedford, Massachusetts 01730, USA
Med Care 41:1256-61. 2003..Racial disparities have been widely documented in medical care, but variations in dental care have not been well examined... - Relaxation response for Veterans Affairs patients with congestive heart failure: results from a qualitative study within a clinical trialBei Hung Chang
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Prev Cardiol 7:64-70. 2004..The value of the RR in congestive heart failure health care is suggested by the results... - HIV medical care provider practices for reducing high-risk sexual behavior: results of a qualitative studyMari Lynn Drainoni
Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 23:347-56. 2009.... - Retention challenges for a community-based HIV primary care clinic and implications for interventionSharon Coleman
Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 21:691-701. 2007..The primary study limitation is the underrepresentation of minority and traditionally underserved populations... - Increased preventive practices lead to greater tooth retentionN R Kressin
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, VAMC, 200 Springs Road, Building 70 152, Bedford, MA 01730, USA
J Dent Res 82:223-7. 2003..Adherence to ADA recommendations for preventive care leads to better oral health, and consistently practicing preventive behaviors over the long term confers greater benefits than doing so over the short term... - Determinants of body weight among men of different sexual orientationNicholas P Deputy
Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Prev Med 51:129-31. 2010..We hypothesized that sexual minority men (SMM) that is, men who identify as either homosexual or bisexual, have a lower BMI due to healthier eating habits and increased physical activity compared to heterosexual men... - Explanatory factors of sexual function in sexual minority women breast cancer survivorsU Boehmer
Departments of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston
Ann Oncol 23:2873-8. 2012..Sexual minority survivors differ from heterosexual survivors in that health-related quality of life is less important as an explanatory factor. These findings can guide adaptation of interventions for sexual minority survivors... - The lack of cancer surveillance data on sexual minorities and strategies for changeDeborah J Bowen
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Cancer Causes Control 18:343-9. 2007..To consider options for gathering cancer incidence and risk factor data in sexual minority individuals...