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Coming out growth: Conceptualizing and measuring stress-related growth associated with coming out to others as a sexual minority. Frequently the predictive ability of models are not as good in the validation sample as the original sample, so adjustments are made and the model gradually improves. Differences in coping outcomes may partially result from differences in age among the study samples.
Also, the sample size is relatively small so the 95% confidence intervals for the relative risk estimate are quite wide, and the follow up period is short. Lesbian women had lower mean scores on the anxious preoccupation and cognitive avoidance subscales ( p < 0. A surveillance system for monitoring, public reporting, and improving minority access to cancer clinical trials.
Overall, this sample of women was characterized by adaptive coping strategies; thus, limited variability in the coping outcomes may explain some of the null findings. Data extraction and quality assessment were by two reviewers with disagreements resolved through discussion. The lesbian sample consisted of 1,614 women of whom 161 were aged between 50 and 59, and 58 were aged over 60 years so only 14% of the cohort were over 49 yrs old at time of registration of partnership. Agrawal R, Sharma S, Bekir J, Conway G, Bailey J, Balen AH, et al: Prevalence of polycystic ovaries and polycystic ovary syndrome in lesbian women compared with heterosexual women. There were no differences in the percentage of lesbian and heterosexual women who were undergoing active cancer treatment.
Social stress theory postulates that individuals with lower SES lack external resources necessary to manage stress associated with adverse life events. Risk models use characteristics of people or populations which can be environmental, behavioural, genetic or psychological in a statistical model to make a population-based estimate of risk, or to generate an individualised risk estimate. Six risk-factor estimates suggested higher risk and one no difference between LB and heterosexual women.Table 4 lists studies assessing the percentages of individual risk factors in LB women compared to heterosexual women where risk models were not used to combine results.