Sexual and reproductive health indicators of sexual minority women exposed to intimate partner violence

Zelazny, Sarah

Saturday, March 21, 2015: 2:10 PM-3:30 PM

Room 5 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speaker:
Sarah Zelazny, BA, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

Authors:
Heather L. McCauley, ScD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Jay Silverman, PhD, UCSD
Michele R. Decker, ScD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Daniel J. Tancredi, PhD, University of California at Davis
Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

Presentation Format:
Scientific Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Be able to articulate the prevalence of IPV and reproductive coercion among sexual minority and heterosexual female family planning clients.
Be able to describe differences in sexual and pregnancy risk between sexual minority and heterosexual women.

Description:
Female family planning clients (n=3,455) indicated on a survey whether their sex partners were exclusively men, mostly men, or equally men/women. Sexual minority women (SMW) were more likely to report a history of IPV than heterosexual women (72% v 44%). After controlling for IPV, SMW reported greater pregnancy risk though were less likely to be seeking care for contraception. Limitations include the exclusion of women with mostly/exclusively female partners and inability to document relationship contexts and perpetrator characteristics.