Application of Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Sampling Weights to Transgender Health Measurement

Ethan C Cicero1, Sari L Reisner, Elizabeth I Merwin

  • 1Ethan C. Cicero, PhD, RN, is Postdoctoral Scholar Fellow, Department of Community Health Systems, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco. Sari L. Reisner, ScD, is Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Associate Scientific Researcher, Division of General Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Massachusetts; Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; and Affiliated Research Scientist and Director, Transgender Health Research Team, The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, Boston, Massachusetts. Elizabeth I. Merwin, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Dean, College of Nursing and Health Innovation, University of Texas at Arlington. Janice C. Humphreys, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Professor, Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, North Carolina. Susan G. Silva, PhD, is Associate Professor, Duke University School of Nursing and School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.

Nursing Research
|February 22, 2020
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