TY - JOUR
T1 - Sexual minority women and depressive symptoms throughout adulthood
AU - Pyra, Maria
AU - Weber, Kathleen M.
AU - Wilson, Tracey E.
AU - Cohen, Jennifer
AU - Murchison, Lynn
AU - Goparaju, Lakshmi
AU - Golub, Elizabeth T.
AU - Cohen, Mardge H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 American Public Health Association.
PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - Objectives. We examined the associations between depressive symptoms and sexual identity and behavior among women with or at risk for HIV.Methods. We analyzed longitudinal data from 1811 participants in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) from 1994 to 2013 in Brooklyn and the Bronx, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Washington, DC; and Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, by comparing depressive symptoms by baseline sexual identity and ongoing sexual behavior. We controlled for age, socioeconomic status, violence history, and substance use.Results. In separate analyses, bisexual women and women who reported having sex with both men and women during follow-up had higher unadjusted odds of depressive symptoms compared with heterosexuals and women who reported only having male sexual partners (adjusted odd ratio [AOR] = 1.36; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.10, 1.69 and AOR = 1.21; 95% CI = 1.06, 1.37, respectively). Age was a significant effect modifier in multivariable analysis; sexual minority women had increased odds of depressive symptoms in early adulthood, but they did not have these odds at midlife. Odds of depressive symptoms were lower among some sexual minority women at older ages.Conclusions. Patterns of depressive symptoms over the life course of sexual minority women with or at risk for HIV might differ from heterosexual women and from patterns observed in the general aging population.
AB - Objectives. We examined the associations between depressive symptoms and sexual identity and behavior among women with or at risk for HIV.Methods. We analyzed longitudinal data from 1811 participants in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) from 1994 to 2013 in Brooklyn and the Bronx, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Washington, DC; and Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, by comparing depressive symptoms by baseline sexual identity and ongoing sexual behavior. We controlled for age, socioeconomic status, violence history, and substance use.Results. In separate analyses, bisexual women and women who reported having sex with both men and women during follow-up had higher unadjusted odds of depressive symptoms compared with heterosexuals and women who reported only having male sexual partners (adjusted odd ratio [AOR] = 1.36; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.10, 1.69 and AOR = 1.21; 95% CI = 1.06, 1.37, respectively). Age was a significant effect modifier in multivariable analysis; sexual minority women had increased odds of depressive symptoms in early adulthood, but they did not have these odds at midlife. Odds of depressive symptoms were lower among some sexual minority women at older ages.Conclusions. Patterns of depressive symptoms over the life course of sexual minority women with or at risk for HIV might differ from heterosexual women and from patterns observed in the general aging population.
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U2 - 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302259
DO - 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302259
M3 - Article
C2 - 25320890
AN - SCOPUS:84911059622
SN - 0090-0036
VL - 104
SP - e83-e90
JO - American journal of public health
JF - American journal of public health
IS - 12
ER -
