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| Sonya S BradySummaryAffiliation: University of Minnesota Country: USA Publications
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Lifetime family violence exposure is associated with current symptoms of eating disorders among both young men and womenSonya S Brady
University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, Minneapolis, MN 55454 1015, USA
J Trauma Stress 21:347-51. 2008..Findings suggest that depression and anxiety may play a role in the development and maintenance of eating disorder symptoms subsequent to repeated incidents of family violence exposure...- Open, closed, or in between: relationship configuration and condom use among men who use the internet to seek sex with menSonya S Brady
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN, 55454, USA
AIDS Behav 17:1499-514. 2013..Prevention messages should attempt to reduce cheating and increase personal responsibility for protecting partners from HIV. Messages should be tailored to reflect open and monogamous relationships... 
Adolescents report both positive and negative consequences of experimentation with cigarette useSonya S Brady
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Prev Med 46:585-90. 2008..To examine the physiological and social consequences that 9th and 10th grade adolescents experience as a result of experimenting with cigarette use, and whether consequences vary by level of experimentation and gender...- Cognitive coping moderates the association between violent victimization by peers and substance use among adolescentsSonya S Brady
Assistant Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, 1300 South Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 34:304-10. 2009..This study tested whether violent victimization by peers was associated with alcohol and tobacco use among adolescents, and whether adaptive coping styles moderated associations... - Violence involvement, substance use, and sexual activity among Mexican-American and European-American adolescentsSonya S Brady
Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
J Adolesc Health 43:285-95. 2008..This study examined longitudinal associations between violence involvement, substance use, and sexual activity... - Infidelity, trust, and condom use among Latino youth in dating relationshipsSonya S Brady
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454, USA
Sex Transm Dis 36:227-31. 2009..Latino youth in the United States are at greater risk for contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in comparison with non-Hispanic white youth... - Supportive friendships moderate the association between stressful life events and sexual risk taking among African American adolescentsSonya S Brady
University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, Minneapolis, MN 55454 1015, USA
Health Psychol 28:238-48. 2009..This study examined whether uncontrollable stressful life events were associated with sexual risk taking among adolescents across a 1-year period, and whether supportive friendships modified associations... - Social and emotional consequences of refraining from sexual activity among sexually experienced and inexperienced youths in CaliforniaSonya S Brady
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Am J Public Health 98:162-8. 2008..We examined the social and emotional consequences among adolescents of refraining from sexual activity (oral or vaginal sex) and whether these consequences differed over time and by gender and sexual experience... - Adaptive coping reduces the impact of community violence exposure on violent behavior among African American and Latino male adolescentsSonya S Brady
Department of Psychiatry, Health Psychology Program, University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California St, Ste 465, P O Box 0848, San Francisco, CA 94118 0848, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:105-15. 2008..Interventions targeting the enhancement of coping skills may be an effective method of reducing the impact of CVE on adolescent violent behavior... - The Effects of Gay Sexually Explicit Media on the HIV Risk Behavior of Men Who Have Sex with MenB R Simon Rosser
HIV STI Intervention and Prevention Studies HIPS Program, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, 1300 South Second Street, 300, Minneapolis, MN, 55454, USA
AIDS Behav 17:1488-98. 2013..More research to understand how MSM develop and maintain preferences in viewing SEM, and to identify new ways to use SEM in HIV prevention, is recommended... 
Mechanisms linking violence exposure to health risk behavior in adolescence: motivation to cope and sensation seekingSonya S Brady
Health Psychology Program, University of California, San Francisco, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 45:673-80. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Clinical interventions should promote adaptive coping strategies that emphasize maintaining healthy behavior, effective problem solving skills, and stress management techniques...- Adolescents' reported consequences of having oral sex versus vaginal sexSonya S Brady
Department of Psychiatry, Health Psychology Program, University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California St, Box 0848, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Pediatrics 119:229-36. 2007..The present study examined whether adolescents' initial consequences of sexual activity differ according to type of sexual activity and gender... - Performance of the duke religion index and the spiritual well-being scale in online samples of men who have sex with menJ Michael Wilkerson
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 S 2nd Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN, 55454, USA
J Relig Health 52:610-21. 2013..Neither instrument produced adequate model fit. To study the association between religiosity and HIV/STI risk behaviors among MSM, scales are needed that measure the religious and spiritual experiences of MSM... - A commentary on the role of sexually explicit media (SEM) in the transmission and prevention of HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM)B R Simon Rosser
HIV STI Intervention and Prevention Program, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, 55454, USA
AIDS Behav 16:1373-81. 2012..Research suggests there might be ways to use SEM to create innovative approaches to online HIV prevention, particularly among such at-risk populations as youth and MSM of lower socio-economic statuses... - The influence of depression and anxiety on risk of adult onset vulvodyniaMaheruh Khandker
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 20:1445-51. 2011..These studies, however, have not effectively established temporal associations between diagnosed psychiatric disorders and vulvodynia... - Cardiovascular reactivity to stress predicts future blood pressure in adolescenceKaren A Matthews
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Psychosom Med 65:410-5. 2003..This study evaluated the prospective relationship between cardiovascular reactivity to psychological stress and increases in resting blood pressure across a 3-year period among a multiethnic pediatric sample (N = 149)... - We have the evidence to enhance adolescent sexual and reproductive health--do we have the will?Lindsay A Taliaferro
Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center, Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, 717 Delaware Street SE, 3rd Floor West, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414, USA
Adolesc Med State Art Rev 22:521-43, xii. 2011.... - Young adults' media use and attitudes toward interpersonal and institutional forms of aggressionSonya S Brady
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
Aggress Behav 33:519-25. 2007.... - The influence of socioeconomic status and ethnicity on adolescents' exposure to stressful life eventsSonya S Brady
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 27:575-83. 2002..Correlations between socioeconomic indices were not so high as to suggest redundancy, and different SES indicators were of importance in predicting exposure to different types of life events... - Effects of media violence on health-related outcomes among young menSonya S Brady
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 160:341-7. 2006.... - Lifetime community violence exposure and health risk behavior among young adults in collegeSonya S Brady
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
J Adolesc Health 39:610-3. 2006..Findings were independent of gender, ethnic minority status, personality characteristics, aggression, family socioeconomic status, family support, and neighborhood collective efficacy... - Individual versus neighborhood socioeconomic status and race as predictors of adolescent ambulatory blood pressure and heart rateJennifer J McGrath
Concordia University Montreal, QC, Canada
Soc Sci Med 63:1442-53. 2006..These results have important public health implications as they suggest individual and neighborhood SES and race are linked to cardiovascular risk disparities as early as adolescence... - Chronic stress influences ambulatory blood pressure in adolescentsSonya S Brady
University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Ann Behav Med 31:80-8. 2006..The latter association persisted after controlling for clinic BP, suggesting that males may be more vulnerable to chronic stress as a determinant of BP regulation than females early in life...