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Drug use, drug severity, and help-seeking behaviors of lesbian and bisexual womenHeather L Corliss
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 15:556-68. 2006..Future studies that examine pathways by which lesbians and bisexual women can obtain referrals and treatment for substance use problems are needed...
Sexual orientation and drug use in a longitudinal cohort study of U.S. adolescentsHeather L Corliss
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Addict Behav 35:517-21. 2010..Such information is essential for developing interventions that are critically needed to reduce drug use in this population. Efforts need to begin early because large sexual orientation disparities in drug use are evident by adolescence...
An evaluation of service utilization among male to female transgender youth: qualitative study of a clinic-based sampleHeather L Corliss
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J LGBT Health Res 3:49-61. 2007..To improve support for transgender youth and assist in their positive development, it is essential to improve and expand the availability of culturally competent and effective services for this population...- Research, curricula, and resources related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health in US schools of public healthHeather L Corliss
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Am J Public Health 97:1023-7. 2007..Expanding lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health research and curricula may help health professionals improve their response to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health disparities... - Childhood gender nonconformity: a risk indicator for childhood abuse and posttraumatic stress in youthAndrea L Roberts
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pediatrics 129:410-7. 2012..Childhood gender nonconformity has been associated with poorer relationships with parents, but it is unknown if childhood gender nonconformity is associated with childhood abuse or risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in youth... - Elevated risk of posttraumatic stress in sexual minority youths: mediation by childhood abuse and gender nonconformityAndrea L Roberts
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Division of Adolescent Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 102:1587-93. 2012.... - The mediating effect of childhood abuse in sexual orientation disparities in tobacco and alcohol use during adolescence: results from the Nurses' Health Study IIHee Jin Jun
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Cancer Causes Control 21:1817-28. 2010..To examine the mediating effect of childhood abuse on sexual orientation disparities in tobacco and alcohol use during adolescence... - Sexual orientation disparities in purging and binge eating from early to late adolescenceS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Adolesc Health 45:238-45. 2009..To describe patterns of purging and binge eating from early through late adolescence in female and male youth across a range of sexual orientations... - Sexual risk in "mostly heterosexual" young women: influence of social support and caregiver mental healthHeather L Corliss
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 18:2005-10. 2009..Research is needed to identify factors responsible for health disparities in this population comprising the majority of youth who report a minority sexual orientation... - Adult body mass index trajectories and sexual orientation: the Nurses' Health Study IIHee Jin Jun
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Prev Med 42:348-54. 2012..Cross-sectional research has documented elevated prevalence of obesity in lesbian and bisexual women relative to heterosexual women, but little is known about disparities in longitudinal patterns in BMI change during adulthood... - Sexual orientation disparities in weight status in adolescence: findings from a prospective studyS Bryn Austin
Department of Medicine, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 17:1776-82. 2009..The long-term health consequences of overweight are well-documented and over time are likely to exact a high toll on populations with elevated rates... - High burden of homelessness among sexual-minority adolescents: findings from a representative Massachusetts high school sampleHeather L Corliss
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 101:1683-9. 2011.... - Stability and change in self-reported sexual orientation identity in young people: application of mobility metricsMiles Q Ott
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Arch Sex Behav 40:519-32. 2011..Age was positively associated with endorsing a sexual-minority orientation identity. We discuss substantive and methodological implications of our findings for understanding development of sexual orientation identity in young people... - Reproductive health screening disparities and sexual orientation in a cohort study of U.S. adolescent and young adult femalesBrittany M Charlton
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Adolesc Health 49:505-10. 2011..To examine sexual orientation group disparities in the Papanicolaou (Pap) and sexually transmitted infection (STI)/human papillomavirus (HPV) tests among adolescents and young adult females... - Emotional distress among LGBT youth: the influence of perceived discrimination based on sexual orientationJoanna Almeida
Northeastern University, School of Health Professions, Institute on Urban Health Research, Stearns Building, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Youth Adolesc 38:1001-14. 2009..Perceived discrimination is a likely contributor to emotional distress among LGBT youth... - Growing up in a domestic violence environment: relationship with developmental trajectories of body mass index during adolescence into young adulthoodHee Jin Jun
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 66:629-35. 2012..This study investigated the relationship between growing up in a violent home and developmental trajectories of body mass index (BMI) in a cohort of adolescents followed longitudinally from 1996 to 2003-4... - Pervasive trauma exposure among US sexual orientation minority adults and risk of posttraumatic stress disorderAndrea L Roberts
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 100:2433-41. 2010..We assessed sexual orientation disparities in exposure to violence and other potentially traumatic events and onset of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a representative US sample... - Sexual-orientation disparities in cigarette smoking in a longitudinal cohort study of adolescentsHeather L Corliss
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 15:213-22. 2013..We examined sexual-orientation disparities in smoking during adolescence and emerging adulthood and investigated the role of age at first smoking in contributing to smoking disparities... - Disparities in child abuse victimization in lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual women in the Nurses' Health Study IIS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 17:597-606. 2008..One underlying factor may be heightened risk for abuse victimization in childhood in lesbian and bisexual women... - Age of minority sexual orientation development and risk of childhood maltreatment and suicide attempts in womenHeather L Corliss
Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Am J Orthopsychiatry 79:511-21. 2009..Implications for services, interventions, and further research to address maltreatment disparities for sexual minorities are discussed... - Sexual orientation disparities in longitudinal alcohol use patterns among adolescents: findings from the Growing Up Today StudyHeather L Corliss
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 162:1071-8. 2008..To compare sexual orientation group differences in the longitudinal development of alcohol use behaviors during adolescence... - A comparison of weight-related behaviors among high school students who are homeless and non-homelessMary E Fournier
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Sch Health 79:466-73. 2009..This study compares weight-related risk behaviors of public high school students in Massachusetts based on homeless status... - Correlates of overweight and obesity among lesbian and bisexual womenAntronette K Yancey
Department of Community Health Sciences, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Prev Med 36:676-83. 2003..This study examines correlates of obesity and exercise frequency among lesbians and bisexual women... - Development of muscularity and weight concerns in heterosexual and sexual minority malesJerel P Calzo
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine
Health Psychol 32:42-51. 2013..The findings have implications for early interventions for the prevention of obesity and eating disorder risk in heterosexual and sexual minority males. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved)... - Acceptability and feasibility of rapid HIV testing in an adolescent clinic setting: youth testing attitudes, knowledge, and behaviorsSelin Tuysuzoglu
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Adolesc Health 49:609-14. 2011..To assess youths' attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors regarding rapid HIV testing (RHT) and measure acceptability and feasibility of RHT in an adolescent clinic setting... - Global lessons on healthy adolescent sexual developmentAtsuko Koyama
Division of Adolescent Young Adult Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Curr Opin Pediatr 21:444-9. 2009..Examining global trends of adolescent sexual behavior is essential to inform clinical practice as well as for developing interventions and educational strategies to ensure healthy sexual development in young people... - Reports of parental maltreatment during childhood in a United States population-based survey of homosexual, bisexual, and heterosexual adultsHeather L Corliss
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, Box 951772, 650 Charles E. Young Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, USA
Child Abuse Negl 26:1165-78. 2002..While the reasons for this are beyond the scope of the current study, previous research suggests that childhood individual differences, including possibly gender atypicality, may be a causal factor... - Assessing and referring adolescents' health-related social problems: qualitative evaluation of a novel web-based approachSarah A Wylie
Division of Emergency Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston MA 02115, USA
J Telemed Telecare 18:392-8. 2012..The system complemented provider visits and preserved privacy while improving attention to patient needs. Computerized screening and referral tools have potential to improve the quality of care in vulnerable young adults... - Sexual violence victimization history and sexual risk indicators in a community-based urban cohort of "mostly heterosexual" and heterosexual young womenS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 98:1015-20. 2008....