Generations is designed to investigate identity stress, health outcomes, healthcare, and health service utilisation across three generations of lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) adults in the United States of America. Adults were recruited from all fifty states through an existing survey. Eligible adults were educated to at least a sixth grade level, self-identified as Black, Latinx, or White, and self-identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, or same-gender loving. Only cis-gender and gender queer participants were included in the study. Transgender participants were recruited into a separate sister study. Participants were sorted into three generational cohorts. Cohort 1 consisted of adults aged between 18 and 25 years, cohort 2 with adults aged between 34 and 41 years, and cohort 3 included adults aged between 52 and 59 years. At baseline, all three cohorts amounted to 1,518 participants.
Study design
Cohort - accelerated, Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
670 (cohort 1)
372 (cohort 2)
476 (cohort 3)
Age at first data collection
18 - 25 years (cohort 1)
34 - 41 years (cohort 2)
52 - 59 years (cohort 3)
Participant year of birth
Varied (cohort 1)
Varied (cohort 2)
Varied (cohort 3)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2015
Primary Institutions
Columbia University
University College London (UCL)
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz)
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)
NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected


Engagement
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