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| Amy R KnowltonSummaryAffiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Country: USA Publications
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Antiretroviral use among active injection-drug users: the role of patient-provider engagement and structural factorsAmy R Knowlton
Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 24:421-8. 2010....
Main partner factors associated with worse adherence to HAART among women in Baltimore, Maryland: a preliminary studyAmy R Knowlton
Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
AIDS Care 23:1102-10. 2011..Seroconcordant couples-focused intervention that enhances mutual support of HAART adherence may be an effective approach to improving women's HAART adherence and reducing US gender disparities in HIV health outcomes...
Access to medical care and service utilization among injection drug users with HIV/AIDSA R Knowlton
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 64:55-62. 2001..Daily alcohol use was associated with ER as the usual facility for care. Integration of substance abuse treatment, case management, and medical services delivery may contribute to improved HIV care for this population...- Informal care and reciprocity of support are associated with HAART adherence among men in Baltimore, MD, USAAmy R Knowlton
Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
AIDS Behav 15:1429-36. 2011..Results suggest the merit of interventions targeting men and their informal caregivers, particularly main partners, and gender-specific, contextually tailored strategies to promote HAART adherence... - Microsocial environmental influences on highly active antiretroviral therapy outcomes among active injection drug users: the role of informal caregiving and household factorsAmy R Knowlton
Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 46:S110-9. 2007..The findings suggest that adherence interventions for IDUs should promote existing informal HIV caregiving, living with supportive others, and positive medication-taking norms among social networks... - Externalizing behaviors among children of HIV seropositive former and current drug users: parent support network factors as social ecological risksAmy Knowlton
Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Room 286, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Urban Health 85:62-76. 2008..While dually affected children's contact with their parents may have important benefits, results suggest it presents ongoing needs for intervention with the children, their parents, and caregivers... - Social support networks and medical service use among HIV-positive injection drug users: implications to interventionA R Knowlton
Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
AIDS Care 17:479-92. 2005..The findings suggest that promoting HIV-positive African American injection drug users' support network functioning may help improve HIV medical services utilization among this medically underserved population... - Social support among HIV positive injection drug users: implications to integrated intervention for HIV positivesAmy Knowlton
Department of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
AIDS Behav 8:357-63. 2004..Findings may have implications to the development of integrated HIV prevention and care intervention that builds on HIV seropositives' natural support structures... - Longitudinal predictors of depressive symptoms among low income injection drug usersA R Knowlton
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
AIDS Care 13:549-59. 2001..For HIV-positive drug users, drug treatment prior to AIDS may help reduce depressive symptoms, with potential implications for HIV service utilization and medical adherence... - Informal HIV caregiving in a vulnerable population: toward a network resource frameworkAmy R Knowlton
Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Soc Sci Med 56:1307-20. 2003..Network resource-oriented research may allow for ascertainment of community caregiving capacity, and guide the development of interventions to promote HIV caregiving in disadvantaged populations... - Randomized controlled trial of trained patient-nominated treatment supporters providing partial directly observed antiretroviral therapyJean B Nachega
Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
AIDS 24:1273-80. 2010..Directly observed therapy (DOT) for antiretroviral therapy (ART) may improve adherence, but there are limited data on its clinical effectiveness... - Predictors of sharing injection equipment by HIV-seropositive injection drug usersCarl A Latkin
Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, Room 737, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 49:447-50. 2008.... - Participants' descriptions of social support within a multisite intervention for HIV-seropositive injection drug users (INSPIRE)Shannon Gwin Mitchell
Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 46:S55-63. 2007.... - Treatment supporter to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected South African adults. A qualitative studyJean B Nachega
Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21215, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 43:S127-33. 2006..In addition, our results suggest that interventions tailored to treatment supporter characteristics and relationship factors may be effective in influencing patients' antiretroviral therapy adherence... - HIV prevention among drug users: outcome of a network-oriented peer outreach interventionCarl A Latkin
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Health Psychol 22:332-9. 2003..Results suggest that psychosocial intervention emphasizing prosocial roles and social identity, and incorporating peer outreach strategies, can reduce HIV risk in low-income, drug-using communities... - Norms, social networks, and HIV-related risk behaviors among urban disadvantaged drug usersCarl A Latkin
Department of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 624 North Broadway, 21205, Baltimore, MD, USA
Soc Sci Med 56:465-76. 2003..The findings of this study may have implications for norm change interventions among disadvantaged communities at high risk for HIV/AIDS... - Stigma, disclosure, and depressive symptoms among informal caregivers of people living with HIV/AIDSMary M Mitchell
Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 23:611-7. 2009..In addition, future research should examine these relationships further using longitudinal data from informal caregivers and their care recipients... - Individual, interpersonal, and structural correlates of effective HAART use among urban active injection drug usersAmy Knowlton
Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 41:486-92. 2006..Interventions promoting social support functioning, patient-provider communication, stable housing, and drug abuse treatment may facilitate effective HAART use in this vulnerable population... - The effects of sponsorship in 12-step treatment of injection drug usersByron L Crape
John Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 65:291-301. 2002.... - Intimate partner violence perpetration against main female partners among HIV-positive male injection drug usersVictoria Frye
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 46:S101-9. 2007..IPV assessment and treatment among HIV-positive men in HIV care is recommended as a way to prevent IPV perpetration and victimization and to reduce potential HIV transmission... - Correlates of depression among HIV-positive women and men who inject drugsEduardo E Valverde
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 46:S96-100. 2007..Although depression is common among HIV-positive injection drug users (IDUs), little is known about differences between male and female HIV-positive IDUs... - Factors associated with antiretroviral therapy adherence and medication errors among HIV-infected injection drug usersJulia H Arnsten
Division of General Internal Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10467, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 46:S64-71. 2007..Active drug use is often associated with poor adherence, but few studies have determined psychosocial correlates of adherence in injection drug users (IDUs)... - Results from a randomized controlled trial of a peer-mentoring intervention to reduce HIV transmission and increase access to care and adherence to HIV medications among HIV-seropositive injection drug usersDavid W Purcell
Division of HIV AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 46:S35-47. 2007..We sought to evaluate the efficacy of an intervention to reduce sexual and injection transmission risk behaviors and to increase utilization of medical care and adherence to HIV medications among this population... - Longitudinal correlates of health care-seeking behaviors among HIV-seropositive injection drug users: how can we intervene to improve health care utilization?James D Wilkinson
Department of Pediatrics, Leonard M Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33101, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 46:S120-6. 2007..To identify modifiable factors associated with health care utilization by HIV-negative seropositive injection drug users (IDUs)...
Research Grants
- Informal Caregiving & Medical Adherence Among HIV+ IDUsAmy Knowlton; Fiscal Year: 2007..Study findings will contribute to the identification of appropriate targets and approaches for the behavioral adherence intervention. ..
- Informal Caregiving & Medical Adherence Among HIV+ IDUsAmy Knowlton; Fiscal Year: 2007..Study findings will contribute to the identification of appropriate targets and approaches for the behavioral adherence intervention. ..
- Informal Caregiving & Medical Adherence Among HIV+ IDUsAmy Knowlton; Fiscal Year: 2009..Study findings will contribute to the identification of appropriate targets and approaches for the behavioral adherence intervention. ..