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Challenges and opportunities in the science of research to practice: lessons le...
Wainberg,Milton L.; Mann,Claudio G.; Norcini-Pala,Andrea; McKinnon,Karen; Pinto,Diana; Pinho,Veronica; Cavalcanti,Maria T.; Cheng-Shiun,LeuObjective: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention efficacy trials with psychiatric patients have been conducted in research settings in high-resourced countries, establishing short-term efficacy for reducing sexual risk behavior. None has been implemented within systems of care. In the last decade, overcoming this research-to-practice gap has become a focus of implementation science. This paper describes...
Validation of the Mental Illness Sexual Stigma Questionnaire (MISS-Q) in a samp...
Wainberg,Milton; Pala,Andrea Norcini; Cournos,Francine; McKinnon,KarenABSTRACT Objective We evaluated the psychometric properties of a new instrument “Mental Illness Sexual Stigma Questionnaire” (MISS-Q). Methods We interviewed 641 sexually active adults (ages 18-80) attending public outpatient psychiatric clinics in Rio de Janeiro about their stigma experiences. Results Nine factors were extracted through exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and labeled: ‘individual discrimination ...
Psychiatric patients' return for HIV/STI test results in mental health centers
Melo,Ana Paula Souto; McKinnon,Karen; Wainberg,Milton L; César,Cibele Comini; Guimarães,Mark Drew CroslandOBJECTIVE: To assess individual and/or health service factors associated with patients returning for results of HIV or sexually transmitted infection (STI) tests in mental health centers. METHODS: Cross-sectional national multicenter study among 2,080 patients randomly selected from 26 Brazilian mental health centers in 2007. Multilevel logistic regression was used to assess the effect of individual (level 1) a...
HIV risk behavior of psychiatric patients with mental illness: a sample of Braz...
Guimarães,Mark Drew Crosland; McKinnon,Karen; Campos,Lorenza Nogueira; Melo,Ana Paula Souto; Wainberg,MiltonOBJECTIVE: The prevalence of HIV among psychiatric patients is higher than general population rates worldwide. Many risk behaviors have been identified in studies from both developing and developed countries, though sampling limitations restrict the generalizability of their results. The objective of this study was to report findings from the first national sample of psychiatric patients about lifetime practice...
HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B and C prevalence among patients with mental illn...
Campos,Lorenza Nogueira; Guimarães,Mark Drew Crosland; Carmo,Ricardo Andrade; Melo,Ana Paula Souto; Oliveira,Helian Nunes de; Elkington,KatherineA limited number of studies worldwide have investigated the prevalence of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B and C infection among psychiatric patients. However, prevalence of these infections in the population with chronic mental illness has not been clearly established. Most of the published papers are from developed countries and have derived from relatively small and non-representative samples. We performed a s...