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Recent illicit drug use among psychiatric patients in Brazil: a national repres...
Nahas,Miriam Almeida; Melo,Ana Paula Souto; Cournos,Francine; Mckinnon,Karen; Wainberg,Milton; Guimarães,Mark Drew CroslandABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To estimate factors associated to illicit drug use among patients with mental illness in Brazil according to gender. METHODS A cross-sectional representative sample of psychiatric patients (2,475 individuals) was randomly selected from 11 hospitals and 15 public mental health outpatient clinics. Data on self-reported illicit drug use and sociodemographic, clinical and behavioral characteristi...
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 ...
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...
Sexuality, vulnerability to HIV, and mental health: an ethnographic study of ps...
Pinto,Diana de Souza; Mann,Claudio Gruber; Wainberg,Milton; Mattos,Paulo; Oliveira,Suely Broxado deThis paper presents data from the ethnographic based formative phase of the Interdisciplinary Project on Sexuality, Mental Health, and AIDS (PRISSMA), sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and carried out in two psychiatric institutions in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Results from ethnographic observations, focus groups, and key informant interviews with different groups of mental h...