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Psychosocial Interventions for HIV-Seropositive Persons
Asymptomatic but HIV-seropositive persons are the largest group of individuals affected by AIDS. Some HIV-infected persons may live for the rest of their lives without develo** physical symptoms but remain c...
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Psychosocial Care Needs of Persons with AIDS
Persons diagnosed with frank AIDS are not a uniform group and do not have uniform needs. Some AIDS patients are first seen in the late stages of their illnesses when death is imminent. Others are seen much ear...
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Medical Aspects of AIDS
In the spring of 1981, investigators at the UCLA Medical Center recorded five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, a virulent form of pneumonia uncommon in the United States (Centers for Disease Control, 1981...
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Risk-Reduction Counseling for Individuals and Groups
Individuals are not at risk for AIDS because of who they are. Gay men do not become exposed to HIV infection because they are homosexual, but rather only if they engage in specific high-risk sexual activities or ...
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Effective Help-Providing
AIDS is a unique illness, the most frightening and serious of the sexually transmitted diseases. Since it appeared, AIDS has eclipsed much of the attention once given to such treatable “traditional” sexually t...
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Transmission and Risk Factors for AIDS
As we discussed in Chapter 1, HIV transmission occurs when the virus from an infected individual’s body fluids, primarily blood or semen, gains entry to the bloodstream of another person. Among some AIDS risk ...
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Treating the Child Abuser
Scientific, empirically based approaches to the treatment of any problem depend upon the adequacy of theoretical models concerning the cause of the problem. As discussed in other chapters, for many years there...
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The Delivery of Health Care Services to Older Adults
As the elderly population of the United States increases, the demand for medical services for the aged will also increase. The medical needs of older people are varied and necessitate the services of a variety...
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HIV Prevention among Gay and Bisexual Men in Small Cities
One consequence of the emergence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic over a decade ago among homosexually active men in the largest American cities is that most behavioral research on acquired i...
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Behavioral medicine interventions can improve the quality-of-life and health of persons with HIV disease
Interventions to enhance the quality-of-life and health of persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease are becoming increasingly important as the number of people with HIV increases and as medical ...
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Priming Effects of HIV Risk Assessments on Related Perceptions and Behavior: An Experimental Field Study
HIV-AIDS prevention research requires assessment administration formats that do not enhance response bias or risk sensitization. In the present study, reactivity of self-reported sexual history measures used i...
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Cost-Effectiveness of an HIV/AIDS Prevention Intervention for Gay Men
The present study sought to determine the cost per discounted quality-adjusted-life-year (QALY) saved by a small group workshop-format, cognitive-behavioral HIV-prevention intervention for gay men. The methodo...
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Patterns, Predictors and Gender Differences in HIV Risk Among Severely Mentally Ill Men and Women
A number of studies have established high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seroprevalence among severely mentally ill men and women living in large urban areas. Much less research has characterized the patte...
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Predictors of Continued High-Risk Sexual Behavior in a Community Sample of Persons Living with HIV/AIDS
Most HIV prevention research has focused on persons who are HIV-seronegative. However, some persons aware of their HIV infection may continue to engage in high-risk sexual behavior patterns that place their se...
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Role Play Assessments of Sexual Assertiveness Skills: Relationships with HIV/AIDS Sexual Risk Behavior Practices
Conceptual formulations of HIV risk reduction and many HIV prevention interventions reported in the literature emphasize the role of sexual assertiveness, negotiation, and communication skills as key elements ...
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Sexual HIV Risk Behavior Levels Among Young and Older Gay Men Outside of AIDS Epicenters: Findings of a 16-City Sample
Although AIDS rates have leveled among older gay men in large original epicenters, HIV seroincidence remains high among young men who have sex with men (MSM) in many areas of the country. This research examine...
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Interventions to Reduce HIV Transmission in Homosexual Men
An understanding of any intervention to reduce the impact of an infectious disease always rests on three domains-an understanding of the biology of the infectious agent, an understanding of the epidemiology of...
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Outcomes of a Randomized Small-Group HIV Prevention Intervention Trial for People with Serious Mental Illness
HIV prevalence is alarmingly high among persons with serious mental illness and severely mentally ill adults frequently engage in high-risk behavior practices. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a small...
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AIDS-Related Grief and Co** with Loss Among HIV-Positive Men and Women
AIDS-related grief was examined and its association with co** among HIV-positive men and women explored. AIDS-related grief, psychological distress and co** were examined among a sample of 268 HIV-infected...
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Predictors of HIV Sexual Risk Behaviors in a Community Sample of Injection Drug-Using Men and Women
Injection risk practices and unprotected sex between injection drug users (IDUs) and their sexual partners are responsible for a high proportion of AIDS cases and new HIV infections in the United States. The p...