女性乳腺癌幸存者的性取向与生活质量之间的关系。
Relationship between sexual orientation and quality of life in female breast cancer survivors.
机构信息
Boston University School of Public Health, Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA.
出版信息
J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2011 Dec;20(12):1819-24. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2011.2921. Epub 2011 Oct 12.
BACKGROUND
Some groups of breast cancer survivors bear a greater burden of diminished quality of life than others. Self-identified lesbians, or women who partner with other women in romantic and spousal relationships, are one group of women that has been hypothesized to experience and report poorer quality of life compared with heterosexual breast cancer survivors.
METHODS
A convenience sample of 204 breast cancer survivors (143 heterosexual and 61 self-identified lesbians) participated in this cross-sectional, online study by completing electronic surveys regarding their quality of life.
RESULTS
Multivariate linear regression indicated that quality of life was not related to sexual orientation (β=0.13, p=0.30). Quality of life scores were similar between heterosexual and self-identified lesbian breast cancer survivors.
CONCLUSION
Quality of life scores were similar between heterosexual and lesbian breast cancer survivors. Future survivorship research should include population-based sampling of lesbian breast cancer survivors for testing quality of life and reducing the healthy volunteer effect, and population-based methodologies should be made available to enhance researcher ability to study this rare population.
背景
一些乳腺癌幸存者群体的生活质量下降程度比其他群体更大。自认为是女同性恋者，或与女性在浪漫和婚姻关系中成为伴侣的女性，是被假设与异性恋乳腺癌幸存者相比生活质量更差、报告生活质量更差的女性群体之一。
方法
本横断面、在线研究采用方便抽样法，共纳入 204 名乳腺癌幸存者（143 名异性恋者和 61 名自认为是女同性恋者），通过完成关于生活质量的电子调查参与本研究。
结果
多变量线性回归表明，生活质量与性取向无关（β=0.13，p=0.30）。异性恋和自认为是女同性恋的乳腺癌幸存者的生活质量评分相似。
结论
异性恋和女同性恋乳腺癌幸存者的生活质量评分相似。未来的生存研究应包括对女同性恋乳腺癌幸存者进行基于人群的抽样，以测试生活质量并减少健康志愿者效应，并应提供基于人群的方法，以提高研究人员研究这一罕见人群的能力。
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