A5079786681- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Mental Health via Writing
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Media Studies and Communication
- Community Health and Development
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Social Media and Politics
Tulane University
2022-2024
Hunter College
2021-2024
City University of New York
2021-2024
HIV mobile health (mHealth) interventions often incorporate interactive peer-to-peer features. The user-generated content (UGC) created by these features can offer valuable design insights revealing what topics and life events are most salient for participants, which serve as targets subsequent interventions. However, unstructured, textual UGC be difficult to analyze. Interpretive thematic analyses preserve rich narratives latent themes but labor-intensive therefore scale poorly. Natural...
Despite the prominence of self-efficacy as a predictor antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence, relatively little work has examined domain-specific associations with steps in care continuum or possibility that substance use may have self-efficacy. This study analyzed data from sample 174 people living HIV recruited through three clinics New York City metro area. Consistent hypotheses, path analysis showed appointments kept and viral load were each predicted only by their respective components...
Abstract Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and financial hardship are associated with increased likelihood of heavier alcohol use health challenges in adulthood among persons living HIV (PWH). We examined whether retrospectively captured lifetime drinking trajectories a pathway through which hardships affect current sample 365 adult PWH. Childhood economic ACEs were used as main predictors. Measures included age at first drink trajectories. Health indicators health-related quality life,...
Interactive communications technologies (ICTs) are key sites of self-discovery, community formation, health education, and creative expression among the 0.7-3.2% young people who identify as transgender genderexpansive (TGE).mHealth interventions intended for TGE users situated within-and, increasingly, informed bythis rich online milieu.ICTs permit socially isolated to transcend limitations their physical environments, in which social bonds, gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT)...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in increased mental health concerns among adolescent and emerging adults, sexual gender minority youth are vulnerable for elevated symptoms social determinants of </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> purpose the current study was to describe relationships domains outcomes (SG) across Florida after shut down. <title>METHODS</title> Youth advisors chose measures developed items collaboration with academic partners. A...
Interactive communications technologies facilitate identity formation and socio-sexual connection among transgender gender-diverse young people. However, within their communities, variations in technology use along ethno-racial, sexual gendered lines, as facilitators of resilience during the early COVID-19 pandemic, remain under-studied. Among
Passive suicidality is endured by 1 in 10 adults, yet remains understudied. Ideation-to-action theories suicidology offer explanatory reach: a capacity to understand phenomenologies of suicidal ideation, and examine questions why certain individuals are afflicted with desire for death. Critical implicates oppressive societal hierarchies cultural scripts undermining human worth intra-psychically. The internalization these systemic, “intrapolitical,” drivers hopelessness may represent key...
Abstract Place-based socio-economic and racial inequities contribute to health disparities among people with HIV (PWH). We used geographic ecological momentary assessment (GEMA) methodologies explore the interplay between psychosocial outcomes in daily diaries community spatial measures PWH New Orleans. (N = 69) were recruited from a clinic-based cohort study. Micro-longitudinal data collected via smartphone-based geospatial tracking over 14 days. First, correlations run diary derived (e.g.,...
In 2020, Greater New Orleans, Louisiana, was home to 7048 people living with HIV-1083 per 100,000 residents, 2.85 times the US national rate. With Louisiana routinely ranked last in indexes of health equity, violent crime rates Orleans Parish quintupling averages, and in-care HIV surviving twice average adverse childhood experiences, accessible, trauma-focused, evidence-based interventions (EBIs) for violence-affected are urgently needed.
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> In 2020, Greater New Orleans, Louisiana, was home to 7048 people living with HIV—1083 per 100,000 residents, 2.85 times the US national rate. With Louisiana routinely ranked last in indexes of health equity, violent crime rates Orleans Parish quintupling averages, and in-care HIV surviving twice average adverse childhood experiences, accessible, trauma-focused, evidence-based interventions (EBIs) for violence-affected are urgently needed. </sec>...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> HIV mobile health (mHealth) interventions often incorporate interactive peer-to-peer features. The user-generated content (UGC) created by these features can offer valuable design insights revealing what topics and life events are most salient for participants, which serve as targets subsequent interventions. However, unstructured, textual UGC be difficult to analyze. Interpretive thematic analyses preserve rich narratives latent themes but labor-intensive...