Disclosure Matters: Enhancing Patient-Provider Communication is Necessary to Improve the Health of Sexual Minority Adolescents

There is the continued need to develop and evaluate models designed to address the health disparities that sexual and gender minority (SGM) groups experience as a result of multiple sociocultural factors. SGM populations have been found to have a higher prevalence of physical and mental health conditions, and to experience barriers to care and other unique social and structural inequities [1–3]. To enhance the care continuum, disclosure of sexual orientation and sexual behavior by sexual minority individuals has been advocated for within public health practice.