Association of State Funding for Comprehensive Reproductive Health Care With Use of Contraception Among Latina Patients and Non-Latina Patients in Oregon.

Importance: There are well-documented racial and ethnic disparities in effective contraceptive use due to multiple factors. A key contributor may be differential insurance coverage and patient costs. The Oregon Reproductive Health Equity Act (RHEA), enacted in 2017, ensures full coverage of reproductive health care without cost sharing for all Oregonians with low income.

Contraceptive services in Oregon's state-funded network during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objectives: To understand how changes to in-person health care during the COVID pandemic impacted contraceptive use in Oregon's state-funded network.

Study Design: A retrospective cohort of 245,600 visits (virtual and in-person) among 70,295 women presenting to publicly funded family planning clinics in Oregon between January 2019 and June 2021. Data were abstracted from clinic records and restricted to visits of patients identifying as female, 12-51 years old, not using sterilization as a method.

Expanded Access to Postabortion Contraception under Oregon's Reproductive Health Equity Act.

Objective: We describe the first 24 months of expanded family planning services for low-income immigrants under Oregon's Reproductive Health Equity Act. We examined postabortion contraceptive use in rural versus urban locations.

Study Design: We conducted a historical cohort study of abortion services reimbursed under the Reproductive Health Equity Act in the first 2 years after its implementation (2018 and 2019).

Women's Access to Abortion Care Under Oregon's Reproductive Health Equity Act.

This cohort study describes the first 24 months of abortion services covered under Oregon's Reproductive Health Equity Act and distances traveled by women to receive care.

Feasibility of a Multicomponent Breast Health Education Intervention for Vietnamese American Immigrant Women.

Purpose/objectives: To determine the feasibility and acceptability of an intervention with targeted cultural and health belief messages to increase rates of mammography among Vietnamese American (VA) immigrant women. 
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Design: One-group, pre-/post-test, pilot, quasiexperimental design.

A Longitudinal Examination of Stages of Change Model Applied to Mammography Screening.

Application of behavior change theories to ethnically diverse groups is limited. In a secondary analysis of intervention study data, we tested the validity of the transtheoretical model (TTM) of change among Chinese American immigrant women. Three hundred mammography non-adherent women were randomized to an intervention or control group.

Mammography Screening of Chinese Immigrant Women: Ever Screened Versus Never Screened.

Purpose/objectives: To compare the differences in mammogram completion rates over time between Chinese American women with and without a history of mammogram screening
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Design: Secondary analysis of a randomized, controlled intervention study.

Setting: Metropolitan areas of Portland, Oregon.

Breast Health Intervention Effects on Knowledge and Beliefs Over Time Among Chinese American Immigrants--a Randomized Controlled Study.

Chinese American immigrant women, nonadherent with mammography in the past 12 months, (N = 300) were enrolled in a randomized controlled trial designed to change knowledge and beliefs and increase mammogram use. This report describes intervention effects on changes in knowledge and beliefs between the control and educational groups over four time points (baseline and 3, 6, and 12 months). Variables measured included knowledge, perceived susceptibility, perceived general barriers to mammography, perceived benefits to mammography, and four cultural barriers to mammography (crisis orientation, modesty, use of Eastern medicine, reliance on others).

A breast health educational program for Chinese-American women: 3- to 12-month postintervention effect.

Purpose: To test the efficacy of a culturally targeted breast cancer screening educational program in increasing mammogram completion in Chinese-American immigrant women.

Design: Randomized controlled study.

Setting: Chinese communities, Portland, Oregon.

Feasibility of a targeted breast health education intervention for Chinese American immigrant women.

Purpose/objectives: To assess the feasibility and acceptability of a targeted educational intervention to increase mammography screening among Chinese American women.

Design: One-group pre- and post-test quasiexperimental design.

Setting: Metropolitan areas of Portland, OR.

Sleep-wake patterns of school-age children and adolescents before diagnosis and during induction chemotherapy for acute lymphocytic leukemia.

Sleep disturbances are commonly reported by children receiving chemotherapy for leukemia. Sleep patterns before diagnosis and during induction chemotherapy were evaluated in 38 children (7 to 18 years old). Child Sleep Assessment (CSA) was used to evaluate sleep patterns prior to diagnosis.