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pro vyhledávání: '"Rafaela R Robles"'
Autor:
Tomás D. Matos, Rafaela R. Robles, Juan Negrón, Juan C. Reyes, José M. Calderón, Olga M. Pérez, Héctor M. Colón
Publikováno v:
Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 23:1499-1512
This study investigates the role of neighborhoods in adolescent violence in poor neighborhoods in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The study is part of a larger longitudinal project examining risk and resilience in adolescents' ages 12 to 15 years old and thei
Publikováno v:
Youth & Society. 39:362-384
Research suggests that sexual silence, family loyalty, and homophobia foster health-compromising behaviors among adult Latino gay males, but little is known about the effect of these sociocultural factors on the lives of Latino children and young tee
Autor:
Hardeo Sahai, Myrna Cabassa, Héctor M. Colón, Sherry Deren, Rafaela R. Robles, Sung Yeon Kang
Publikováno v:
Journal of Urban Health. 83:1114-1126
Drug users have been found to be at high risk of mortality but the mortality experience of Hispanic drug users remains understudied. This study assessed mortality among Puerto Rican injection drug users (IDUs) in New York City (NY), and in Puerto Ric
Autor:
Rafaela R. Robles, Carlos Blanco, Ana Mari Cauce, Dharma E. Cortés, J. Bryan Page, Armando Morales, Paige Berry, Helena Hansen, Hortensia Amaro, Margarita Alegría
Publikováno v:
Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 84:S76-S84
Delivery of services to Hispanic drug users remains a great challenge, as shown by low service access and retention, and disproportionate negative consequences of drug abuse in the Hispanic population. This paper provides a critical analysis of curre
Publikováno v:
AIDS and Behavior. 10:531-539
As a subgroup of men who have sex with men (MSM), non-gay-identified (NGI) behaviorally bisexual Latino MSM are associated with heightened probabilities of HIV transmission, yet they have eluded HIV/AIDS interventionists. This exploratory study of Pu
Publikováno v:
Substance Use & Misuse. 41:915-935
It is well documented that drug users often modulate the effects of their primary drugs of use (e.g., cocaine) by using other drugs (e.g., alcohol), yet the effect of modulating and primary drug interactions on transitions from one class of drugs to
Autor:
Sherry Deren, Rafaela R. Robles, Jonny Andia, Héctor M. Colón, Sung Yeon Kang, Ann Finlinson, Denise Oliver-Velez
Publikováno v:
The Prison Journal. 85:329-342
This study examines factors related to injection and noninjection drug use during the last incarceration among injection drug users in East Harlem, New York (n = 555), and Bayamón, Puerto Rico (n = 241). Injecting drugs during the last incarceration
Autor:
Jonny Andia, Sherry Deren, Rafaela R. Robles, Héctor M. Colón, Sung Yeon Kang, Denise Oliver-Velez
Publikováno v:
AIDS and Behavior. 9:377-386
This study examined HIV risk behavior in jail/prison among Puerto Rican drug injectors in New York (NY, n = 300) and Puerto Rico (PR, n = 200), and its relationship with later drug and sex risk behaviors. During 3 years prior to interview, 66% of NY
Autor:
Héctor M. Colón, H. Ann Finlinson, Rafaela R. Robles, Tomás D. Matos, Elizabeth W. Shepard, Juan C. Reyes, C. Amalia Marrero
Publikováno v:
Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. 82:446-455
This report examines associations between homelessness and HIV risk behaviors among injection drug users (IDUs) in Puerto Rico. The study sample consisted of 557 IDUs who were not in treatment, recruited in inner-city neighborhoods of the North Metro
Autor:
Tomás D. Matos, C. Amalia Marrero, Hardeo Sahai, Rafaela R. Robles, José M. Calderón, Juan C. Reyes, Elizabeth W. Shepard, Héctor M. Colón
Publikováno v:
Addictive Behaviors. 30:397-402
This study examined factors associated with drug treatment dropout among injection drug users (IDUs) in Puerto Rico, a group that has contributed significantly to the self-sustaining AIDS epidemic in the island since the mid-1980s. A total of 557 IDU