A5015434718- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- HIV-related health complications and treatments
- Family Support in Illness
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Sex work and related issues
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- HIV Research and Treatment
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
Columbia University
2020-2025
University of Georgia
2013-2025
Christiana Care Health System
2023
Johns Hopkins University
2012-2022
Fairleigh Dickinson University
2020
Cornell University
2020
New York State Psychiatric Institute
2020
Georgia College & State University
2014
Ohio University
2002-2013
Heritage University
2013
Outcomes of a randomized community-level HIV prevention intervention for women living in 18 low-income housing developments CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.90.1.57 Published Online: October 10, 2011
People living with HIV disease, particularly those in small towns and rural areas, face many barriers that prevent them from receiving important life-care services. We developed the Barriers to Care Scale (BACS) delineate problem severity of factors impede care service provision among a sample 226 men women disease single midwestern state. Both urban respondents indicated major services included lack knowledge about citizens community, insufficient personal financial resources, employment...
OBJECTIVE: This study examined the prevalence and characteristics of suicidal ideation among middle-aged older persons who have HIV infection or AIDS. METHODS: A total 113 subjects than age 45 had HIV-AIDS were recruited from AIDS service organizations in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, New York City. Participants completed confidential questionnaires covering ideation, emotional distress, quality life, coping, social support. RESULTS: Twenty-seven percent respondents reported having thought about...
Increasingly, the telephone is being used to deliver psychotherapy for depression, in part as a means reduce barriers treatment. Twelve trials of telephone-administered psychotherapies, which depressive symptoms were assessed, included. There was significant reduction patients enrolled compared control conditions (d = 0.26, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.14-0.39, p < .0001). also analyses pretreatment posttreatment change 0.81, CI 0.50-1.13, The mean attrition rate 7.56% (95% 4.23-10.90)....
AIDS service organizations (ASOs) rarely have access to the information needed implement research-based HIV prevention interventions for their clients. We compared effectiveness of 3 dissemination strategies transferring models from research arena community providers services.Interviews were conducted with directors 74 ASOs assess current services. randomized programs that provided (1) technical assistance manuals describing how interventions, (2) plus a staff training workshop on conduct...
This study tested the mediating effect of resilience on relationship between life stress and health-related quality (HRQoL) in older people, 50 years age older, living with HIV/AIDS (OPLWHA).Data from 299 OPLWHA were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) to define a novel construct (represented by coping self-efficacy, active coping, hope/optimism, social support) assess effects association HRQoL (physical, emotional, functional/global well-being).SEM analyses showed satisfactory...
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in a rapid transition from in-person therapy to teletherapy. This study examined mental health providers' perceptions of the differences between and teletherapy common therapeutic attributes identified therapist characteristics that predicted differences. A sample 440 therapists trainees completed an online survey assessed their provision clinical services since outbreak COVID-19. Therapists provided ratings for having used 28 (e.g.,...
OBJECTIVES. This study describes the prevalence and predictors of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk behaviors among women living in low-income, inner-city housing developments. METHODS. Anonymous questionnaires were administered to 671 10 inner-city, low-income developments five US cities determine their levels HIV behavior practices. RESULTS. Approximately one third at high for because sexual partners. was highest who accurately perceived themselves be increased risk, held strong...
AIDS influences the psychological coping not only of person with disease but also those close to that individual. Following a death from AIDS, family members and friends may experience atypical bereavement. Bereavement challenges can be especially difficult pronounced for persons who are themselves HIV-positive. The prevalence AIDS-related bereavement psychosocial predictors grief severity were examined in an ethnically diverse sample 199 HIV-infected men women. Eighty per cent HIV-positive...
Abstract The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) Legacy Archive Spectroscopic SurveY (CLASSY) provides the first high-resolution spectral catalog of 45 local high- z analogs in ultraviolet (UV; 1200–2000 Å) to investigate their stellar and gas properties. Here we present a toolkit UV interstellar medium (ISM) diagnostics, analyzing main emission lines CLASSY spectra (N iv ] λ 1483,87, C λλ 1548,51, He ii 1640, O iii 1661,6, Si 1883,92, 1907,9). Specifically, our aim is provide accurate...
The current study delineated patterns and predictors of adherence to antiretroviral therapy in 329 persons living with HIV disease rural areas 12 US states. Participants provided self-report data on medication adherence, reasons for missing doses, psychological symptomatology, life-stressor burden, social support, ways coping, coping self-efficacy, the quality their relationship main physician, barriers health care services. Based collected via retrospective, assessment instruments, only 50%...
Abstract: During the past decade, many investigations have examined life circumstances of people living with HIV disease. Most these studies, however, focused on HIV‐infected in large metropolitan areas. This study compares psychosocial profiles rural and urban Anonymous, self‐administered surveys were completed by 276 HIV/AIDS a Midwestern state. The assessment instrument measured respondents' quality life, perceptions loneliness, social support, experiences AIDS‐related discrimination,...
Abstract Although persons 50 years of age and older account for 10% all US AIDS cases, the mental health needs this growing group remain largely overlooked. The current study delineated patterns predictors psychological symptoms amongst late middle-aged adults living with HIV/AIDS in two large cities. In 1998, 83 HIV-infected individuals 50-plus ( M = 55.2, Range 50-69) completed self-report surveys eliciting data on symptomatology, HIV-related life-stressor burden, social support, barriers...
Background: The Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (IMB) model of HIV preventive behavior (1–4) specifies that treatment effects on occur largely as the result behavioral skills, which follow from information and motivation. Purpose: objective was to determine whether variables specified by IMB accounted for relation between an IMB-based resulting (condom use). Method: Women (n = 557) living in 18 low-income housing developments 5 geographically dispersed cities were recruited...
The chronic illness quality of life (CIQOL) model theorizes that satisfaction in persons living with a such as HIV disease is function illness-related discrimination, barriers to health care and social services, physical well-being, support, coping. CIQOL was evaluated using data from 275 disease. Women reported less confronted more services than men, White participants higher perceptions AIDS-related discrimination non-White participants. provided an excellent fit study (root-mean-square...
Objectives: Youth are increasingly at risk for contracting HIV infection, and community-level interventions needed to reduce behavioral risk. Design: A randomized, controlled, multi-site intervention trial was undertaken with adolescents living in 15 low-income housing developments five US cities. Methods: Baseline (n = 1172), short-term follow-up 865), long-term 763) assessments were conducted among adolescents, ages 12–17, all developments. The randomly assigned equal numbers each of three...
Abstract The COS Legacy Archive Spectroscopic SurveY (CLASSY) is designed to provide the community with a spectral atlas of 45 nearby star-forming galaxies that were chosen cover similar properties those seen at high z ( > 6). prime high-level science product CLASSY accurately coadded UV spectra, ranging from ∼1000 2000 Å, derived combination archival and new data obtained HST’s Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS). This paper details multistage technical processes creating this...
ABSTRACT Emerging research suggests that therapists feel less efficacious administering therapy remotely than in‐person. These findings, however, are based almost exclusively on therapist self‐reports. The current study compared therapists' self‐reported and observer‐rated therapeutic skills across simulated in‐person teletherapy scenarios to determine if common factors differed between the two treatment settings. A diverse sample of 223 licensed trainees provision psychotherapy using...
This study characterized rates and predictors of suicidal thoughts among HIV-infected persons living in rural communities eight U.S. states. Self-administered surveys were completed by 201 50,000 or fewer that located at least 20 miles from a city 100,000 more. All participants clients AIDS service organizations had recently enrolled into randomized clinical trial telephone-delivered, coping improvement-group intervention designed specifically for persons. At baseline, reported on suicide,...