Lori A J Scott-Sheldon

..Interventions among STD patients should include activities addressing condom use motivation and directly enhancing condom skills...

..To examine whether people who expect to live longer engage in healthier behaviors relative to people who expect to live shorter lives...

..Identifying smoking patterns and correlates of use would assist health providers to develop more culturally sensitive interventions...

..The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between substance use and unprotected sex independently for alcohol, drugs, or combined substance use and to examine partner characteristics as a moderator of this association...

..At the event-level, alcohol consumption among heavy drinking college students leads to risky sexual behavior but the relation differs by gender and partner type...

..Therefore, the current meta-analysis examines the impact of stress-management interventions at improving psychological, immunological, hormonal, and other behavioral health outcomes among HIV+ adults...

..Greek and non-Greek members did not differ in condom use, unprotected sex, eating, and physical activity behaviors. Implications for prevention and intervention strategies among Greek members are discussed...

..Little is known about how receipt of HIV testing might influence interpersonal communication. To explore these questions, the authors examined the effects of prior HIV testing on sexual health communication among South Africans...

..Overall, findings suggest that eroticizing safer sex leads to more risk-preventive attitudes, which in turn facilitates less risky sexual behavior...

..Behavioral interventions targeted to STD clinic patients reduce sexual risk behavior and prevent HIV/STDs. Widespread use of behavioral interventions in STD clinics should be a public health priority...

..Both behavioral and attitudinal norms predicted the respondents' self-reported risk behavior. These findings indicate that correcting inaccurate norms in HIV-risk reduction efforts is worthwhile...

..The Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (IMB) model often guides sexual risk reduction programs even though no studies have examined covariation in the theory's constructs in a dynamic fashion with longitudinal data...

..The short-term effects of EC interventions on college student drinking are not maintained at follow-ups greater than 4 weeks...

..This meta-analysis evaluates the efficacy of computer-delivered interventions (CDIs) to reduce alcohol use among college students...

..Implications for future research include attention to maintenance of effects, and developing more efficacious interventions for at-risk college drinkers...

..Therefore, we examined the efficacy of behavioral interventions to increase condom use and reduce sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV...

..These findings can help prevention practitioners and researchers to develop interventions to reduce risk associated with partner concurrency...

..The Marijuana Decisional Balance Scale enhances our ability to study motivational factors associated with marijuana use among young adults...

..To the contrary, for some subgroups, interventions that include components recommended by behavioral science theory reduce the frequency of sexual events and partners...

..To summarize studies that have tested the efficacy of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) sexual risk-reduction interventions in adolescents...