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HEALTH INFLUENCES OF UNIQUE AND INTERSECTING IDENTITIES: AGE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND RACE

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual older adults are an understudied group with limited research using nationally representative samples. Although there are known physical health disparities based on age, sexual orientation, and race, the effects of intersecting identities have not been fully examined. We we...

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Autores principales: Bernstein, Laura, Patrick, Julie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9771698/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.3039
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description Lesbian, gay, and bisexual older adults are an understudied group with limited research using nationally representative samples. Although there are known physical health disparities based on age, sexual orientation, and race, the effects of intersecting identities have not been fully examined. We were interested in how these identities individually influence health and whether they interact to effect physical health. Using the 2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (M age = 54.30, SD = 17.52), we examined whether sexual orientation was related to the number of poor physical health days experienced and whether that relation was moderated by age and race. The overall model was significant (F (5, 223356) = 511.86, p < .001, R2 = .0113). Significant direct effects of sexual orientation and race emerged, but these were qualified by a significant sexual orientation by race interaction (b = -.09) A significant main effect emerged for age (b = 1.08) but the sexual orientation by age interaction failed to reach significance. There was a significant three-way interaction between age, race, and sexual orientation (F (2, 223356) = 6.34, p < .01). Investigation into the means found that multiracial adults tend to report more poor health days than White, Black, or Hispanic adults, except for bisexual older and younger adults. These results highlight the importance of examining intersecting identities when trying to understand health disparities across the lifespan. Understanding how these identities interact helps to identify specific barriers these groups face and ultimately improve health equity, specifically in an aging population.
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spelling pubmed-97716982023-01-24 HEALTH INFLUENCES OF UNIQUE AND INTERSECTING IDENTITIES: AGE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND RACE Bernstein, Laura Patrick, Julie Innov Aging Late Breaking Abstracts Lesbian, gay, and bisexual older adults are an understudied group with limited research using nationally representative samples. Although there are known physical health disparities based on age, sexual orientation, and race, the effects of intersecting identities have not been fully examined. We were interested in how these identities individually influence health and whether they interact to effect physical health. Using the 2020 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (M age = 54.30, SD = 17.52), we examined whether sexual orientation was related to the number of poor physical health days experienced and whether that relation was moderated by age and race. The overall model was significant (F (5, 223356) = 511.86, p < .001, R2 = .0113). Significant direct effects of sexual orientation and race emerged, but these were qualified by a significant sexual orientation by race interaction (b = -.09) A significant main effect emerged for age (b = 1.08) but the sexual orientation by age interaction failed to reach significance. There was a significant three-way interaction between age, race, and sexual orientation (F (2, 223356) = 6.34, p < .01). Investigation into the means found that multiracial adults tend to report more poor health days than White, Black, or Hispanic adults, except for bisexual older and younger adults. These results highlight the importance of examining intersecting identities when trying to understand health disparities across the lifespan. Understanding how these identities interact helps to identify specific barriers these groups face and ultimately improve health equity, specifically in an aging population. Oxford University Press 2022-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9771698/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.3039 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full HEALTH INFLUENCES OF UNIQUE AND INTERSECTING IDENTITIES: AGE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND RACE
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title_full_unstemmed HEALTH INFLUENCES OF UNIQUE AND INTERSECTING IDENTITIES: AGE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND RACE
title_short HEALTH INFLUENCES OF UNIQUE AND INTERSECTING IDENTITIES: AGE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND RACE
title_sort health influences of unique and intersecting identities: age, sexual orientation and race
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