L S Weinhardt

..These findings may also have implications for the generalizability of HIV prevention interventions to contexts that do not include such detailed assessments...

..Implications for preventing HIV infection among people with severe mental illness are discussed...

..We discuss how participants' responses were used to inform the development of such an intervention...

..We recognize several empirical exceptions to this rule and provide suggestions for future research...

..At the event level, however, alcohol use was not related to condom use during vaginal or anal intercourse; that is, participants who used condoms when sober tended to use them to the same extent when drinking...

..In addition to the more traditional approaches of HIV test counseling and of focusing on persons not infected, intensive prevention programs for persons with HIV infection are needed to stem the future spread of the virus...

..We conclude that the TLFB is feasible, reliable, and valid, even in a population known to have difficulty with self-report measures...

..However, the intervention was designed to be useful for prevention case management, settings where repeated one-on-one contact is possible, and where a structured but highly individualized intervention approach is desired...

..However, efforts to promote provider-initiated HIV testing among MMD should challenge negative HIV testing expectations and associate HIV testing with positive outcomes...

..The disparities in Internet use identified in this study suggest that individuals who access the Internet, particularly for health information, are among the better resourced and healthier persons living with HIV/AIDS...

..Advanced communication technologies can create a cost-effective infrastructure to disseminate new intervention models to service providers worldwide...

..Individuals likely experience HIV differently on the basis of sociocultural realities associated with sexual identity. Further, symptom intrusiveness may be a more sensitive measure of subjective health status for these groups...

..People who cope by avoiding health information may be vulnerable to misinformation and unfounded claims that are commonly encountered on the Internet...

..Results suggest that patients do not always evaluate online information critically and may be vulnerable to misinformation...

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..An enhanced stress and coping model was used to explain depression among HIV-positive women in healthcare and community settings where highly active anti-retroviral treatment (HAART) was commonplace...

..g., cognitive, emotional, interpersonal) can have compensatory influences on behavioral outcomes. Findings are discussed in terms of social action theory, contributing to our theoretical understanding of the phenomenon of adherence...

..There is a need for targeted interventions and integration of mental health and substance use services into primary HIV care settings...

..Reductions in substance use were examined in response to an intensive intervention with people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (PLH)...

..Additional research has evaluated the economic efficiency ('cost-effectiveness') of these interventions...

..Being a parent, especially a custodial parent, living with HIV was anticipated to increase psychological distress and challenges to self-care...

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..Results will also be relevant to microbicide trials that often use repeated detailed behavioral assessments, which may alter participants' willingness to use the microbicide and distort the outcomes. ..

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..Results will also be relevant to microbicide trials that often use repeated detailed behavioral assessments, which may alter participants'willingness to use the microbicide and distort the outcomes. ..

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..Results will also be relevant to microbicide trials that often use repeated detailed behavioral assessments, which may alter participants' willingness to use the microbicide and distort the outcomes. ..

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