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Overview

Janette M Perz is affiliated with Western Sydney University in Australia and has a research focus broadly spanning Medicine, Social Sciences, and Psychology. Their work intersects several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Reproductive Medicine, and Clinical Psychology.

Their research contributions explore diverse topics with particular emphasis on:

  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Reproductive Health and Technologies
  • Reproductive Biology and Fertility
  • Cancer survivorship and care
  • Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

Frequent publication venues for Janette M Perz include Research Square, Frontiers in Oncology, Patient Education and Counseling, BMC Women's Health, and Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Attitudes, knowledge and practice behaviours of oncology health care professionals towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) patients and their carers: A mixed-methods study" (2021, Patient Education and Counseling)
  • "Crossing Boundaries and Fetishization: Experiences of Sexual Violence for Trans Women of Color" (2020, Journal of Interpersonal Violence)
  • "Surviving Discrimination by Pulling Together": LGBTQI Cancer Patient and Carer Experiences of Minority Stress and Social Support" (2022, Frontiers in Oncology)
  • "What do women want? Migrant and refugee women's preferences for the delivery of sexual and reproductive healthcare and information" (2021, Ethnicity and Health)
  • "LGBTQI cancer patients' quality of life and distress: A comparison by gender, sexuality, age, cancer type and geographical remoteness" (2022, Frontiers in Oncology)

Janette M Perz has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Jane M. Ussher
  • Alexandra Hawkey
  • Rosalie Power
  • Kimberley R. Allison
  • Chloe Parton

Best Publications

  • Sexuality after breast cancer: A review

    Gilbert Emilee;J.M. Ussher;J. Perz

  • Changes in sexuality and intimacy after the diagnosis and treatment of cancer : the experience of partners in a sexual relationship with a person with cancer

    Yasmin Hawkins;Jane M Ussher;Emilee Gilbert;Janette M Perz

  • Changes to sexual well-being and intimacy after breast cancer.

    Jane M Ussher;Janette M Perz;Emilee Gilbert

  • “In My Culture, We Don’t Know Anything About That”: Sexual and Reproductive Health of Migrant and Refugee Women

    Christine Metusela;Jane M Ussher;Janette M Perz;Alexandra J Hawkey

  • Talking about sex after cancer: a discourse analytic study of health care professional accounts of sexual communication with patients.

    Jane M Ussher;Janette Perz;Emilee Gilbert;W K Tim Wong

  • Systematic review of fertility-related psychological distress in cancer patients: Informing on an improved model of care.

    Shanna Logan;Shanna Logan;Shanna Logan;Janette Perz;Jane M. Ussher;Michelle Peate

  • Sexuality after gynaecological cancer: a review of the material, intrapsychic, and discursive aspects of treatment on women's sexual-wellbeing.

    Emilee Gilbert;Jane M Ussher;Janette M Perz

  • Refugee and migrant women's engagement with sexual and reproductive health care in Australia: A socio-ecological analysis of health care professional perspectives.

    Zelalem B Mengesha;Janette M Perz;Tinashe M Dune;Jane M Ussher

  • Negotiating Discourses of Shame, Secrecy, and Silence: Migrant and Refugee Women’s Experiences of Sexual Embodiment

    Jane M Ussher;Janette M Perz;Christine Metusela;Alexandra J Hawkey

  • Health-Related Quality of Life, Psychological Distress, and Sexual Changes Following Prostate Cancer: A Comparison of Gay and Bisexual Men With Heterosexual Men

    Jane M. Ussher;Janette M. Perz;Andrew Kellett;Suzanne K. Chambers

  • Renegotiating sexuality and intimacy in the context of cancer: the experiences of carers.

    Emilee Gilbert;Jane M. Ussher;Janette Perz

  • The transgender parent: Experiences and constructions of pregnancy and parenthood for transgender men in Australia

    Rosie Charter;Jane M. Ussher;Janette Perz;Kerry Robinson

  • Information needs associated with changes to sexual well-being after breast cancer.

    Jane M Ussher;Janette M Perz;Emilee Gilbert

  • Perceived causes and consequences of sexual changes after cancer for women and men: a mixed method study.

    Jane M Ussher;Janette Perz;Emilee Gilbert

  • Feeling well and talking about sex : psycho-social predictors of sexual functioning after cancer

    Janette Perz;Jane M Ussher;Emilee Gilbert

  • Renegotiating Sex and Intimacy After Cancer Resisting the Coital Imperative

    Jane M. Ussher;Janette Perz;Emilee Gilbert;W. K. Tim Wong

  • A systematic review of patient oncofertility support needs in reproductive cancer patients aged 14 to 45 years of age.

    S. Logan;J. Perz;J.M. Ussher;M. Peate

  • Maternal health service utilisation of adolescent women in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic scoping review.

    Tensae Mekonnen;Tinashe Dune;Janette Perz

  • Positive and negative interactions with health professionals: a qualitative investigation of the experiences of informal cancer carers.

    Emilee Gilbert;Jane M Ussher;Janette M Perz;Kim Hobbs

  • Talking about sex with health professionals: the experience of people with cancer and their partners

    E. Gilbert;J. Perz;J.M. Ussher

  • Development of the menopause symptom list: a factor analytic study of menopause associated symptoms.

    Janette M. Perz

  • Sexual and reproductive health of migrant and refugee women

    Jane Ussher;Christine Metusela;Alex Hawkey;Janette Perz

Frequent Co-Authors

Jane M Ussher
Jane M Ussher Western Sydney University
Felix Akpojene Ogbo
Felix Akpojene Ogbo Western Sydney University
Phyllis Butow
Phyllis Butow University of Sydney
Suzanne K. Chambers
Suzanne K. Chambers University of Technology Sydney
Joan C. Chrisler
Joan C. Chrisler Connecticut College

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