Choosing "Something Else" as a Sexual Identity: Evaluating Response Options on the National Health Interview Survey
Choosing "Something Else" as a Sexual Identity: Evaluating Response Options on the National Health Interview Survey
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DOI：
10.1089/lgbt.2016.0206
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发表时间：
2017-10-01
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影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Streed, Carl G., Jr.
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作者：
Eliason, Michele J.;Streed, Carl G., Jr.
目的：研究人员努力寻找有效的方法来衡量性和性别认同，以确定 LGBTQ+ 人群子集之间是否存在健康差异。方法：本研究调查了 277 名 LGBTQ+ 医疗保健提供者对国家健康访谈调查 (NHIS) 性别认同问题的回答。结果：18% 的人表示他们的性别认同在第一个问题上是其他内容，而其中 57% 的人在第二个问题上也选择了其他内容。一半的性别酷儿/性别变异参与者和 100% 的跨性别参与者选择了其他东西作为他们的性身份。结论：NHIS 问题不允许对 LGBTQ+ 人群中的所有受访者进行分类，因此我们可能会错过有关 LGBTQ+ 人群子集的重要健康差异信息。
Purpose: Researchers struggle to find effective ways to measure sexual and gender identities to determine whether there are health differences among subsets of the LGBTQ+ population.Method: This study examines responses on the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) sexual identity questions among 277 LGBTQ+ healthcare providers.Results: Eighteen percent indicated that their sexual identity was something else on the first question, and 57% of those also selected something else on the second question. Half of the genderqueer/gender variant participants and 100% of transgender-identified participants selected something else as their sexual identity.Conclusion: The NHIS question does not allow all respondents in LGBTQ+ populations to be categorized, thus we are potentially missing vital health disparity information about subsets of the LGBTQ+ population.