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| Sandra C TimpsonSummaryAffiliation: Baylor College of Medicine Country: USA Publications
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Condom use behaviors in HIV-infected African American crack cocaine usersSandra C Timpson
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention, School of Public Health, University of Texas Houston, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Subst Abus 24:211-20. 2003..The inconsistent condom use by these HIV+ individuals threatens the progress that has been made to stem the epidemic...- Characteristics, drug use, and sex partners of a sample of male sex workersSandra C Timpson
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention, School of Public Health, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 33:63-9. 2007..In the past 30 days they reported an average of 56 male partners and 5 female partners. Of the 179 men, 152 had been tested for HIV and knew their status. Twenty-six percent of those tested had tested positive... - A psychosocial comparison of New Orleans and Houston crack smokers in the wake of Hurricane KatrinaSandra Timpson
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention, School of Public Health, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Subst Use Misuse 44:1695-710. 2009..There were no significant differences between the two groups on either depression or anxiety, but the New Orleans sample scored higher on the self-esteem scale and scored slightly lower on the risk-taking scale... - Multiple sexual partnerships in a sample of African-American crack smokersJohn S Atkinson
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, The University of Texas, School of Public Health, Houston, TX 77030, USA
AIDS Behav 14:48-58. 2010..Risk behaviors and affective measures were found to differ by partner type... - Sexual activity in HIV-positive African American crack cocaine smokersSandra C Timpson
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, University of Texas School of Public Health, 7000 Fannin, Suite 2516, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Arch Sex Behav 39:1353-8. 2010..A total of 79 participants had multiple partners and accounted for 1,247 partnerships. Rates of consistent condom use across partnerships were low, indicating that more interventions in this at-risk population are needed... - HIV prevention and street-based male sex workers: an evaluation of brief interventionsMark L Williams
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 77030, USA
AIDS Educ Prev 18:204-15. 2006..Brief interventions to reduce the HIV risks are acceptable to MSWs and are efficacious for reducing unprotected anal sex during paid sexual encounters... - An investigation of concurrent sex partnering in two samples of drug users having large numbers of sex partnersMark L Williams
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 7000 Fannin, Suite 2516, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Int J STD AIDS 17:309-14. 2006..Efforts should be made in future studies to better capture the complexities of concurrent partnering and to examine the implications of these for disease spread and control... - Psychological correlates of trading sex for money among African American crack cocaine smokersJan M H Risser
Division of Epidemiology, Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 32:645-53. 2006..These differences suggest that interventions should address self-esteem, risk-taking practices, depression and anxiety as well as other psychosocial factors... - Stages of consistent condom use, partner intimacy, condom use attitude, and self-efficacy in African-American crack cocaine usersUnto E Pallonen
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 7000 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Arch Sex Behav 38:149-58. 2009..In sum, consistent condom use was rare. A partner's attitudes and the participants' own situational self-efficacy expectations, rather than intimacy, determined the readiness to adopt consistent condom use... - Situational correlates of condom use in a sample of African-American drug users who are primarily crack cocaine usersMichael W Ross
WHO Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, School of Public Health, University of Texas, Houston Health Sciences Center, Houston TX 77225, USA
AIDS Behav 7:55-60. 2003..The Sitpres methodology was successfully used by these crack users and data indicated that it was sexual variables, rather than drug-associated variables, that were significantly associated with condom use...