Gass- Intro to sexuality and health

Question 1

“an individual’s pattern of physical and emotional arousal (including fantasies, activities, and behaviors) and the gender(s) of persons to whom an individual is physically or sexually attracted

Answer 1

sexual orientation

Question 2

Which sexual orientation is attracted to any gender identity?

Answer 2

Pansexual

Question 3

internal sense of being male, female, or along the spectrum

Answer 3

Gender Identity

Question 4

the gender(s) a person is attracted to

Answer 4

sexual orientation

Question 5

How one manifests one’s self through social norms of masculine, feminine or variant

Answer 5

gender expression

Question 6

Most individuals who identify as gay or lesbian, for example, have had sex with the gender, and many may continue to do so

Answer 6

opposite

Question 7

some researchers differentiate this from sexual orientation to more specifically reference how people chose to label themselves

Answer 7

sexual identity

Question 8

— specific types of sexual behaviors that an individual engages in, including with whom they are having sex

Answer 8

sexual behavior

Question 9

— an individual who is part of a group whose gender or sexual identity differs from cultural norms

Answer 9

sexual minority

Question 10

What do all of the abbreviations for LGBTQIA stand for?

Answer 10

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual

Question 11

“an irrational fear and resulting hatred of homosexual individuals”

Answer 11

homophobia

Question 12

: “the societal expectation that heterosexuality is the expected normal”

Answer 12

heterosexism

Question 13

Some/Everyone develops a sexual orientation!

Answer 13

everyone

Question 14

Sexual orientation typically emerges “before or in early adolescence” (AAP) around age

❖ This corresponds to the operational stage of development

❖ Family, cultural, and societal expectations may drive the experience and of sexuality in children

❖ Sexual orientation may be fluid or shift over tim

Answer 14

13

formal

expression

Question 15

What piaget stage and age range?

Answer 15

sensorimotor , 0-2 age

Question 16

What piaget stage and age range?

Answer 16

preoperational, 2-7 age

Question 17

What piaget stage and age range?

Answer 17

concrete operational, 7-11 age

Question 18

What piaget stage and age range?

Answer 18

formal operational, 11+ age

Question 19

Some/Most LGBTQIA adolescents are healthy and well-adjusted

Answer 19

most

Question 20

What is the most protective factor for LGBTQIA individuals?

Answer 20

acceptance (family)

Question 21

Please review the list of protective factors for LQBTQIA mental health

Answer 21

Acceptance ❖ Competence ❖ Higher levels of self-esteem and psychologic well-being ❖ Strong sense of self and self-acceptance ❖ Strong ethnic identification ❖ Strong connections to family and school ❖ Caring adult role models outside the family ❖ Community involvement

Question 22

This model represents which theory?

Answer 22

Minority Stress Theory

Question 23

What is the role fo a pedicatrician as it comes to adolescents and sexual indentity and expression?

Answer 23

pediatricians should assist adolescents as they develop their identities and to avoid the consequences of unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), regardless of sexual orientation.

Question 24

Compared to their heterosexual peers, sexual minority students are more likely to have been:

Answer 24

Bullied

Felt sad or hopeless

cosidered suicide

used drugs

been forced to have sex

misused opioids

Question 25

LGBTQIA teens are at increased risk for substance use. Which drug or act in particular?

Answer 25

smoking

Question 26

There are no/are differences in diet, exercise, or other types of non-sexual healthrelated behaviors between LGBTQIA and heterosexual counterparts

Answer 26

are no

Question 27

All sexual minority adults are more likely to

❖ Women who identify as lesbian are 30% more/less likely to have an annual physical exam

❖ Sexual minority adults report lower/higher rates of asthma and cardiovascular disease

Answer 27

smoke

less

higher

Question 28

Sexual minority patients report higher/lower rates of some appropriate screening tests; for example, lesbian women are less likely to receive the HPV vaccine, cervical cancer screening, and mammograms

Answer 28

lower

Question 29

Which minority group has the highest levels of HIV diagnosis?

Answer 29

Black MSM

Question 30

In a primary care setting, sexual history is/is not vital information to have about your patient and you want to ask in the first visit

Answer 30

is not

Question 31

Is is important to screen for mental health disorders in sexual minority care in the primary care setting.

Which disorders can be screened for-

Answer 31

❖ Depression and anxiety are highly prevalent in this population.

Question 32

What other screeners are important for this population other than for mental health (depression and anxiety)?

Answer 32

substance use disorders

(IPV) intimate partner violence

Question 33

What is PrEP and for what is it indicated?

Answer 33

PrEP (pre exposure prophylaxis) is daily medicine that can reduce your chance of getting HIV.

It can stop HIV from taking hold and spreading

Must be taken daily to be most effective

Question 34

According population-level surveys, rates of IPV (intimate partner violence) in same-sex relationships are generally equal to or lower/higher than rates in opposite-sex relationships

Answer 34

higher