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| Posted by: | Blair T. Johnson |
| Title/Position: | Professor of Psychology |
| School/Organization: | University of Connecticut |
| Sent to listserv of: | SPSP, SESP, SPSSI |
| Date posted: | September 30th, 2010 |
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Dear Colleagues,
As you may know, my teams have conducted series of meta-analyses on HIV prevention and HIV risk behavior since the mid-1990s; if you have reports that may qualify for our reviews, please feel free to send them to us (see e-mail and post addresses below), especially if they are not available in the usual places (e.g., PubMed, PsycINFO, Google Scholar, CINAHL).
Now is an especially good time to see whether you may have reports that would qualify for our meta-analyses. Here are some of our current priorities.
(1) In the next two weeks, we are finalizing a meta-analysis related to HIV prevention and depression. Eligible studies for this review include primary-prevention, behavioral interventions that divide results by gender (or report values for women alone); reports should include baseline and post-test/follow-up results on measures of depression and sexual risk (e.g., condom use, number of sexual partners, overall sexual risk, etc.). Of note, depression is often measured as a secondary outcome and therefore reports rarely mention it in abstracts. Consequently, searches of most databases will not find such reports. Therefore, if you have depression outcomes related to a trial, it is very important that you contact us to make sure your trial is considered for inclusion.
(2) We are finalizing two reviews of literatures related to behavioral HIV prevention trials to reduce risk that include assessments of sexually-related biological outcomes, including HIV seroconversions and STIs. Such trials should have a control group of some sort.
(3) Our team is also doing intensive coding related to manuals that have guided behavioral, community-based, or structural intervention trials focused sexual risk reduction, in terms both of the intervention and control groups, as relevant. If you can make manuals available, we would very much like to receive them for potential inclusion in this study.
(4) Finally, we are also doing a geo-temporal analysis of HIV knowledge levels from the early 1980s to present. Any type of study, whether a risk survey, prediction study, or intervention, can qualify if it assessed HIV knowledge along such dimensions as prevention, transmission, etiology, myths, AIDS denialism, and so on. To be included in the study, the knowledge measure/ scale should be a validated instrument, with psychometric properties readily available in the report or elsewhere.
If you have any reports (or treatment manuals) that are eligible for any of these reviews, please send them along. Thank you in advance for your response!
With apologies for cross-posting.
Cordially yours,
Blair T. Johnson
Email reports and manuals here: sharpteamra@gmail.com
Websites:
http://socialpsych.uconn.edu/SHARP.html
http://johnson.socialpsychology.org/
Professor Blair T. Johnson
Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention
2006 Hillside Road Unit 1248
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1248 USA
Phone: +1 860 486-2511 | Fax: +1 860 486-2760
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