Comparing Sexual Minority Cancer Survivors Recruited Through a Cancer Registry to Convenience Methods of Recruitment
Comparing Sexual Minority Cancer Survivors Recruited Through a Cancer Registry to Convenience Methods of Recruitment
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DOI：
10.1016/j.whi.2011.03.003
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发表时间：
2011-09-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Sullivan, Mairead
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作者：
Boehmer, Ulrike;Clark, Melissa A.;Sullivan, Mairead
目的：性少数妇女，被定义为具有女同性恋或双性恋身份或报告对女性伴侣的偏好，不被癌症监测考虑。这项研究评估了性少数乳腺癌幸存者的代表性，定义为具有女同性恋或双性恋身份或报告对女性伴侣的偏好，他们被招募到一个方便的样本中，与基于人口的性少数乳腺癌幸存者登记样本进行比较。方法：非转移性乳腺癌的长期幸存者，报告为性少数的人从癌症登记处招募，随后使用方便的招募方法从社区招募。筛选合格的少数性乳腺癌幸存者参加了一个电话调查，他们的生活质量和相关的factors associated with there.Results：方便的样本中的参与者是类似的登记为基础的样本，调整癌症，身体健康，信任医生，应对，社会支持，和少数性的经验。与便利样本相比，登记样本中的乳腺癌幸存者更可能已婚，受教育程度更高，最近诊断，癌症早期，更可能接受保乳手术治疗：他们在辅助治疗方面存在差异。讨论：因为自愿参加社区样本的性少数乳腺癌幸存者与从癌症登记处招募的样本具有大多数特征，我们的结论是，社区样本具有可比的代表性质量。在缺乏对性少数群体的癌症监测的情况下，周到的便利招募方法提供了良好的代表性质量的便利样本。版权所有（C）2011由雅各布妇女健康研究所。爱思唯尔公司出版
Purpose: Sexual minority women, defined as having a lesbian or bisexual identity or reporting a preference for a female partner, are not considered by cancer surveillance. This study assesses the representativeness of sexual minority breast cancer survivors, defined as having a lesbian or bisexual identity or reporting a preference for a female partner, who were recruited into a convenience sample compared with a population-based registry sample of sexual minority breast cancer survivors.Methods: Long-term survivors of non-metastatic breast cancer who self-reported as sexual minority were recruited from a cancer registry and subsequently from the community using convenience recruitment methods. Sexual minority breast cancer survivors who screened eligible participated in a telephone survey about their quality of life and factors associated therewith.Results: Participants in the convenience sample were similar to the registry-based sample with respect to adjustment to cancer, physical health, trust in physician, coping, social support, and sexual minority experiences. Compared with the convenience sample, breast cancer survivors in the registry sample were more likely married, more educated, diagnosed more recently, at an earlier stage of cancer, and more likely treated with breast-conserving surgery: they differed on adjuvant therapies.Discussion: Because sexual minority breast cancer survivors who volunteered for the community-based sample shared most characteristics of the sample recruited from the cancer registry, we concluded that the community sample had comparable representational quality. In the absence of cancer surveillance of sexual minorities, thoughtful convenience recruitment methods provide good representational quality convenience samples. Copyright (C) 2011 by the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health. Published by Elsevier Inc.