Tara Mckay
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 331392 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tara Mckay |
| NOMBRES | Tara |
| APELLIDO | Mckay |
| FIRMA | MCKAY T |
| AFILIACIONES | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5076-6483 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 164 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Variation in Subjective Cognitive Decline Among Older Adults in the US South based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Older LGBTQ adults face elevated risk for subjective cognitive decline (SCD), yet variation by sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) remains underexplored. Guided by minority stress theory, we analyzed Wave 1 data from the LGBTQ Social Networks, Aging, and Policy Study (QSNAPS), a nonprobability panel of 1,255 LGBTQ adults aged 50–76 years in four Southern states. SCD was assessed using a 15-item index capturing any, mild, and severe cogn…
Minority stress, community involvement, and cognitive decline in rural SGM older adults
Sexual and gender minority (SGM) older adults in rural areas face elevated cognitive health risks shaped by structural stigma, yet the pathways underlying these inequities are poorly understood. This study investigated how lifetime rural exposure, minority stress exposure, and community involvement influenced cognitive outcomes among SGM older adults in the U.S. South. Using data from a three-wave longitudinal panel of 1259 participants, we appli…
Association of State Conscientious Objection Laws and Sexual Minority Population Health
Introduction The legality of denying health services based on sexual orientation is actively being litigated in the United States. Currently, ten US states have passed conscientious objection laws, allowing for denial of health services based on sexual orientation. The objective of this study was to estimate the association between state conscientious objection laws and changes in health service use and health status among sexual minority adults.…
Associations of Faith Community Rejection With Social Support and Health Outcomes Among LGBTQ+ Older Adults
Objectives Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) older adults have varied experiences with faith communities, ranging from affirmation to religious trauma. We investigate how faith community rejection affects social support and health outcomes among LGBTQ+ older adults in the Southern United States. Methods We analyze Wave 1 data from the LGBTQ+ Social Networks, Aging, and Policy Study (QSNAPS), collected between April 2020 and …
Health Disparities Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Older Adults
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) older adults experience significant health disparities. Examining these disparities has become an international research priority, but gaps remain. In this review article, we summarize major contributions of and ongoing gaps in health disparities research among LGBTQ+ older adults, while focusing on four major content areas: (a) social determinants of health disparities, (b) mental, cognitiv…
Aging in isolation
We identified significant unmet need for social supports for IADL impairments, with highest unmet need among SM women. Comprehensive strategies such as LGBTQ + affirming assisted living and home and community-based services are needed to ensure equity in receipt of long-term supports and services for SM populations
Racializing Covid-19
To what extent have social media discussions of health racialized during the COVID-19 pandemic? How has the spread of racialized social media health content influenced attitudes about race and COVID-19? To answer these questions, we collected data on public US Facebook posts from 2019–2020 related to health and health care (n ≃ 9,659,000) and document a rise in race-related and racist language in online discussions directly-related to health duri…
The Missing Millions
Early in 2020, experts warned of the devastating toll that COVID‐19 would have on African countries. By the close of 2021, however, Africa remained one of the least affected regions in the world, leading commentators to speculate about a so‐called “Africa paradox”. This review evaluates current research and data to establish the burden of COVID‐19 infections and mortality in the African region. Despite claims that African countries were spared fr…
Do supportive work environments matter for minority aging? Work stress and subjective cognitive impairment among middle-age and older lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer adults
Research has documented how people's experiences at work affect their cognitive health outcomes, but how these processes unfold for minority groups, particularly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) populations, is unclear. This study builds on the nascent literature by employing generalized structural equation models to test how experiencing major problems at work and working with LGBTQ+ supportive coworkers affect subjective …
Transgender Youths and Sanctuaries for Gender-Affirming Care
This Viewpoint suggests ways state and local governments can support transgender youths seeking gender-affirming care amid continued passage of antitransgender legislation
LGBTQ College student health and wellbeing at the onset of the pandemic
Our study adds novel findings to the large body of research demonstrating that LGBTQ college students experienced distress and elevated mental health needs early in the pandemic. Future research should examine the long-term consequences of the pandemic among LGBTQ and other minoritized college students. Public health policymakers, health care providers, and college and university officials should provide LGBTQ students affirming emotional support…
Political network composition predicts vaccination attitudes
LGBTQ+ Affirming Care May Increase Awareness and Understanding of Undetectable = Untransmittable among Midlife and Older Gay and Bisexual Men in the US South
One of the most significant innovations in HIV prevention is the use of HIV treatment to prevent HIV transmission. This information has been disseminated as the "Undetectable = Untransmittable" (U = U) message. Despite evidence of effectiveness, U = U awareness, belief, and understanding remains limited in some communities. In this study, we examine whether having an LGBTQ affirming healthcare provider increases U = U awareness, belief, and under…
Sexual Behavior Change Among Gay and Bisexual Men During the First Covid-19 Pandemic Wave in the United States
Sexual minority men's behavior changes during the first wave may have reduced the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on their communities. Despite substantial changes in sexual behavior for most men in our sample during the initial first wave, we identify some concerns around the sustainability of certain behavioral changes over time and nondisclosure of COVID-19 symptoms to partners
Effects of Access to Legal Same‐Sex Marriage on Marriage and Health
We provide the first comprehensive evidence on the effects of access to legal same‐sex marriage (SSM) on marriage and adult health using the full rollout of marriage equality across the United States. Using data from the CDC BRFSS from 2000 to 2017, we relate changes in outcomes for individuals in same‐sex households (SSH) coincident with adoption of legal SSM in two‐way fixed effects models. A substantial share of these households includes gay a…
Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage for Individuals in Same-Sex Couples
A large body of research documents that the 2010 dependent coverage mandate of the U.S. Affordable Care Act was responsible for significantly increasing health insurance coverage among young adults. No prior research has examined whether sexual minority young adults also benefitted from the dependent coverage mandate despite previous studies showing lower health insurance coverage among sexual minorities. Our estimates from the American Community…
Structural competency and the future of firearm research
In this critical literature review we develop a five-part agenda for pandemic-era research into mass shootings and multiple-victim homicides that promotes understanding the psychologies of individual shooters within larger structures and systems. We show how the momentous events set in motion by the COVID-19 virus, and the structural drivers of inequity and racism that its spread exposed, challenge mental health research on gun trauma to better a…
Mental Health Needs Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender College Students During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Lgbt Visibility and Anti-Gay Backlash
Throughout the 2000s, donor organizations successfully argued for the inclusion of men who have sex with men (msm) in the global response to HIV/AIDS. These efforts have had unintended consequences for msm and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (lgbt) populations in sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on Malawi and Senegal, we find that donors’ emphasis on msm provided new urgency and sources of support for nascent lgbt- and msm-identified groups t…
Disparities in Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care for Children By Mother’s Sexual Orientation
What an Emerging Trump Administration Means for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health
The policies of the Trump administration are likely to have direct and indirect implications for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) health. With the assistance of a Republican-controlled Congress, President Trump may repeal President Obama's health reform law, undermine same-sex marriage laws and other nondiscrimination protections, reduce funding for research on sexual and gender minority health, and institutionalize discrimination t…
Pursuing social justice through public health
African lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) organizations face various strategic dilemmas in contexts characterized by political hostility to gender and sexual dissidents. In Malawi, one such context, we examine how an LGBTIQ social movement organization (SMO) in Malawi, the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP), navigated one particular strategic dilemma-the dilemma of whether to adopt a less politicized publ…
Beyond Health Effects? Examining the Social Consequences of Community Levels of Uninsurance PRE-ACA
Beyond Health Effects
The lack of health insurance is traditionally considered a problem faced by individuals and their families. However, because of the geographically bounded organization and funding of healthcare in the United States, levels of uninsurance in a community may affect everyone living there. Health economists have examined how the effects of uninsurance spillover from the uninsured to the insured, negatively affecting healthcare access and quality for …
From marginal to marginalised
In the last decade, gay men and other men who have sex with men (msm) have come to the fore of global policy debates about AIDS prevention. In stark contrast to programmes and policy during the first two decades of the epidemic, which largely excluded msm outside of the Western countries, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS now identifies gay men and other msm as 'marginalized but not marginal' to the global response. Drawing on archiv…
Popularity, social acceptance, and aggression in adolescent peer groups
This article reports a short-term longitudinal study focusing on popularity and social acceptance as predictors of academic engagement for a sample of 342 adolescents (approximate average age of 14). These youths were followed for 4 consecutive semesters. Popularity, social acceptance, and aggression were assessed with a peer nomination inventory, and data on academic engagement were obtained from school records. For adolescents who were highly a…
Clinical trials as treatment option
Effects of Access to Legal Same‐Sex Marriage on Marriage and Health
We provide the first comprehensive evidence on the effects of access to legal same‐sex marriage (SSM) on marriage and adult health using the full rollout of marriage equality across the United States. Using data from the CDC BRFSS from 2000 to 2017, we relate changes in outcomes for individuals in same‐sex households (SSH) coincident with adoption of legal SSM in two‐way fixed effects models. A substantial share of these households includes gay a…
Ready Rhetorics
Sex Drugs, Peer Connections, and HIV
African American and Latino young men who have sex with men are at high risk for HIV infection. We administered brief intercept surveys (N=416) at 18 Black and Latino gay pride events in Los Angeles and New York in 2006 and 2007. Ordinal logistic regressions were used to model the effects of substance use during sex, peer connectedness, relationship status, and homelessness on condom use. Alcohol use, crystal use, homelessness, and having a prima…
Psychosocial Correlates of Unprotected Sex Without Disclosure of HIV-Positivity among African-American, Latino, and White Men Who Have Sex with Men and Women
Political network composition predicts vaccination attitudes
Sexual Behavior Change Among Gay and Bisexual Men During the First Covid-19 Pandemic Wave in the United States
Sexual minority men's behavior changes during the first wave may have reduced the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on their communities. Despite substantial changes in sexual behavior for most men in our sample during the initial first wave, we identify some concerns around the sustainability of certain behavioral changes over time and nondisclosure of COVID-19 symptoms to partners
Pursuing social justice through public health
African lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) organizations face various strategic dilemmas in contexts characterized by political hostility to gender and sexual dissidents. In Malawi, one such context, we examine how an LGBTIQ social movement organization (SMO) in Malawi, the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP), navigated one particular strategic dilemma-the dilemma of whether to adopt a less politicized publ…
Beyond Health Effects
The lack of health insurance is traditionally considered a problem faced by individuals and their families. However, because of the geographically bounded organization and funding of healthcare in the United States, levels of uninsurance in a community may affect everyone living there. Health economists have examined how the effects of uninsurance spillover from the uninsured to the insured, negatively affecting healthcare access and quality for …
The bioethical misconception
The Missing Millions
Early in 2020, experts warned of the devastating toll that COVID‐19 would have on African countries. By the close of 2021, however, Africa remained one of the least affected regions in the world, leading commentators to speculate about a so‐called “Africa paradox”. This review evaluates current research and data to establish the burden of COVID‐19 infections and mortality in the African region. Despite claims that African countries were spared fr…
Structural competency and the future of firearm research
In this critical literature review we develop a five-part agenda for pandemic-era research into mass shootings and multiple-victim homicides that promotes understanding the psychologies of individual shooters within larger structures and systems. We show how the momentous events set in motion by the COVID-19 virus, and the structural drivers of inequity and racism that its spread exposed, challenge mental health research on gun trauma to better a…
Using Peer Ethnography to Address Health Disparities Among Young Urban Black and Latino Men Who Have Sex With Men
Objectives. We examined the effectiveness of peer ethnography to gain insider views on substance use and sex among a diverse range of high-risk substance-using Black and Latino young men who have sex with men. Methods. We recruited 9 peer ethnographers aged 21 to 24 years from youth programs for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in Los Angeles, California, and trained them in ethnography, study protocol, and human participant …
Cross-Discipline Perceptions of the Undergraduate Research Experience
Additional informationNotes on contributorsChris CraneyChris Craney is professor of chemistry and director;Tara McKayTara McKay is research analyst;April MazzeoApril Mazzeo is administrator;Janet MorrisJanet Morris is research analyst;Cheryl PrigodichCheryl Prigodich is an undergraduate researcher;Robert de GrootRobert de Groot is research analyst at the Undergraduate Research Center, Occidental College
Associations of Faith Community Rejection With Social Support and Health Outcomes Among LGBTQ+ Older Adults
Objectives Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) older adults have varied experiences with faith communities, ranging from affirmation to religious trauma. We investigate how faith community rejection affects social support and health outcomes among LGBTQ+ older adults in the Southern United States. Methods We analyze Wave 1 data from the LGBTQ+ Social Networks, Aging, and Policy Study (QSNAPS), collected between April 2020 and …
Racializing Covid-19
To what extent have social media discussions of health racialized during the COVID-19 pandemic? How has the spread of racialized social media health content influenced attitudes about race and COVID-19? To answer these questions, we collected data on public US Facebook posts from 2019–2020 related to health and health care (n ≃ 9,659,000) and document a rise in race-related and racist language in online discussions directly-related to health duri…
Sex Effects on Free Recall of Transforming Orally and Visually Presented Nouns into Printed, Picture, or Imagery Form
Two experiments using male and female college students studied the effects on free recall of transforming auditory and visual stimuli by imagination or penciling. Experiment 1 (N = 152) presented nouns either auditorily by a tape recorder or visually as printed words, and Ss either drew them as pictures or printed them as words. Significantly more items were recalled as a result of drawing pictures during the presentation of stimuli (p less than …
The Effect of Sex of the Subject, Sex of the Experimenter, and Reinforcement Condition On Serial Digit Learning
In an investigation of the effects of sex of the S, sex of the E, and verbal reinforcement condition on serial digit learning 60 male and 60 female Ss were randomly and equally assigned to one of two male or two female Es. An equal number of Ss participated in conditions of reward, punishment, or neutral treatment. There were no significant differences found. Results are compared to previous learning studies that utilized verbal material
Sex Effects on Free Recall of Transforming Orally and Visually Presented Nouns into Printed, Picture, or Imagery Form
Two experiments using male and female college students studied the effects on free recall of transforming auditory and visual stimuli by imagination or penciling. Experiment 1 (N = 152) presented nouns either auditorily by a tape recorder or visually as printed words, and Ss either drew them as pictures or printed them as words. Significantly more items were recalled as a result of drawing pictures during the presentation of stimuli (p less than …
Social Skills of Formerly Institutionalized Mentally Retarded Persons
Popularity, social acceptance, and aggression in adolescent peer groups
This article reports a short-term longitudinal study focusing on popularity and social acceptance as predictors of academic engagement for a sample of 342 adolescents (approximate average age of 14). These youths were followed for 4 consecutive semesters. Popularity, social acceptance, and aggression were assessed with a peer nomination inventory, and data on academic engagement were obtained from school records. For adolescents who were highly a…
Psychosocial Correlates of Unprotected Sex Without Disclosure of HIV-Positivity among African-American, Latino, and White Men Who Have Sex with Men and Women
The bioethical misconception
Clinical trials as treatment option
The Effect of Partner Sex
A common concern within HIV prevention is that HIV positive MSMW do not disclose their HIV status to female partners who are thus at increased risk for HIV infection. The present study uses unique data to examine whether MSMW disclose more often to male rather than female partners. Data were collected on most recent male and/or female primary partner and four most recent casual partners from 150 MSMW (50 African American, 50 Latino, 50 White). MS…
Improving HIV/Aids care through treatment advocacy
Treatment advocacy (TA) programs have been implemented by AIDS service organizations (ASOs) and primary care clinics across the USA to help engage clients with HIV into care and support their adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART). TA aims to empower people with HIV through education and client-centered counseling regarding HIV, ART, and other health issues; advocate on behalf of patients with providers; and make referrals to healthcare servic…
Sex Drugs, Peer Connections, and HIV
African American and Latino young men who have sex with men are at high risk for HIV infection. We administered brief intercept surveys (N=416) at 18 Black and Latino gay pride events in Los Angeles and New York in 2006 and 2007. Ordinal logistic regressions were used to model the effects of substance use during sex, peer connectedness, relationship status, and homelessness on condom use. Alcohol use, crystal use, homelessness, and having a prima…
Cross-Discipline Perceptions of the Undergraduate Research Experience
Additional informationNotes on contributorsChris CraneyChris Craney is professor of chemistry and director;Tara McKayTara McKay is research analyst;April MazzeoApril Mazzeo is administrator;Janet MorrisJanet Morris is research analyst;Cheryl PrigodichCheryl Prigodich is an undergraduate researcher;Robert de GrootRobert de Groot is research analyst at the Undergraduate Research Center, Occidental College
Their type of drugs’
Studies of sexuality have increasingly shifted their attention towards understanding the social contexts that inform and organise sexual behaviour. Building on this work, we examine how substance use and sex are socially organised and meaningful activities for young African American and Latino gay and bisexual men who use substances with sex. Drawing on 30 qualitative interviews in Los Angeles and New York, we identify the ways in which social bo…
Using Peer Ethnography to Address Health Disparities Among Young Urban Black and Latino Men Who Have Sex With Men
Objectives. We examined the effectiveness of peer ethnography to gain insider views on substance use and sex among a diverse range of high-risk substance-using Black and Latino young men who have sex with men. Methods. We recruited 9 peer ethnographers aged 21 to 24 years from youth programs for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in Los Angeles, California, and trained them in ethnography, study protocol, and human participant …
From marginal to marginalised
In the last decade, gay men and other men who have sex with men (msm) have come to the fore of global policy debates about AIDS prevention. In stark contrast to programmes and policy during the first two decades of the epidemic, which largely excluded msm outside of the Western countries, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS now identifies gay men and other msm as 'marginalized but not marginal' to the global response. Drawing on archiv…
Ready Rhetorics
What an Emerging Trump Administration Means for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health
The policies of the Trump administration are likely to have direct and indirect implications for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) health. With the assistance of a Republican-controlled Congress, President Trump may repeal President Obama's health reform law, undermine same-sex marriage laws and other nondiscrimination protections, reduce funding for research on sexual and gender minority health, and institutionalize discrimination t…
Pursuing social justice through public health
African lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) organizations face various strategic dilemmas in contexts characterized by political hostility to gender and sexual dissidents. In Malawi, one such context, we examine how an LGBTIQ social movement organization (SMO) in Malawi, the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP), navigated one particular strategic dilemma-the dilemma of whether to adopt a less politicized publ…
Beyond Health Effects? Examining the Social Consequences of Community Levels of Uninsurance PRE-ACA
Beyond Health Effects
The lack of health insurance is traditionally considered a problem faced by individuals and their families. However, because of the geographically bounded organization and funding of healthcare in the United States, levels of uninsurance in a community may affect everyone living there. Health economists have examined how the effects of uninsurance spillover from the uninsured to the insured, negatively affecting healthcare access and quality for …
Lgbt Visibility and Anti-Gay Backlash
Throughout the 2000s, donor organizations successfully argued for the inclusion of men who have sex with men (msm) in the global response to HIV/AIDS. These efforts have had unintended consequences for msm and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (lgbt) populations in sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on Malawi and Senegal, we find that donors’ emphasis on msm provided new urgency and sources of support for nascent lgbt- and msm-identified groups t…
Disparities in Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care for Children By Mother’s Sexual Orientation
Mental Health Needs Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender College Students During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Sexual Behavior Change Among Gay and Bisexual Men During the First Covid-19 Pandemic Wave in the United States
Sexual minority men's behavior changes during the first wave may have reduced the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on their communities. Despite substantial changes in sexual behavior for most men in our sample during the initial first wave, we identify some concerns around the sustainability of certain behavioral changes over time and nondisclosure of COVID-19 symptoms to partners
Effects of Access to Legal Same‐Sex Marriage on Marriage and Health
We provide the first comprehensive evidence on the effects of access to legal same‐sex marriage (SSM) on marriage and adult health using the full rollout of marriage equality across the United States. Using data from the CDC BRFSS from 2000 to 2017, we relate changes in outcomes for individuals in same‐sex households (SSH) coincident with adoption of legal SSM in two‐way fixed effects models. A substantial share of these households includes gay a…
Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage for Individuals in Same-Sex Couples
A large body of research documents that the 2010 dependent coverage mandate of the U.S. Affordable Care Act was responsible for significantly increasing health insurance coverage among young adults. No prior research has examined whether sexual minority young adults also benefitted from the dependent coverage mandate despite previous studies showing lower health insurance coverage among sexual minorities. Our estimates from the American Community…
Medicine (27 obras) · Psychology (26 obras) · Sociology (24 obras) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (16 obras) · Political science (16 obras) · Family medicine (13 obras) · Gender Studies (13 obras) · Health care (12 obras) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (12 obras) · Social Psychology (11 obras)