2013
Closing the Gap: Increases in Life Expectancy among Treated HIV-Positive Individuals in the United States and Canada
Samji H, Cescon A, Hogg RS, Modur SP, Althoff KN, Buchacz K, Burchell AN, Cohen M, Gebo KA, Gill MJ, Justice A, Kirk G, Klein MB, Korthuis PT, Martin J, Napravnik S, Rourke SB, Sterling TR, Silverberg MJ, Deeks S, Jacobson LP, Bosch RJ, Kitahata MM, Goedert JJ, Moore R, Gange SJ, Research and Design of IeDEA F. Closing the Gap: Increases in Life Expectancy among Treated HIV-Positive Individuals in the United States and Canada. PLOS ONE 2013, 8: e81355. PMID: 24367482, PMCID: PMC3867319, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081355.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAntiretroviral therapyHIV-positive adultsMortality rateLife expectancyNorth American AIDS Cohort CollaborationHIV transmission risk groupTransmission risk groupsCombination antiretroviral therapyInjection drug useHIV-positive individualsCrude mortality rateComparable life expectancyBaseline CD4Cohort CollaborationART initiationCD4 countAge-specific mortality ratesRisk groupsPositive adultsGeneral populationDrug useAge 20Cells/AdultsAdditional year
2008
Factor Structure of Leigh’s (1990) Alcohol Sex Expectancies Scale in Individuals in Treatment for HIV Disease
Maisto SA, McGinnis K, Cook R, Conigliaro J, Bryant K, Justice AC. Factor Structure of Leigh’s (1990) Alcohol Sex Expectancies Scale in Individuals in Treatment for HIV Disease. AIDS And Behavior 2008, 14: 174-180. PMID: 18791863, PMCID: PMC3032495, DOI: 10.1007/s10461-008-9457-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHIV groupHIV-positive adultsGeneral medicine clinicSexual risk reductionExcellent internal consistency reliabilityHIV diseaseMedicine clinicInternal consistency reliabilityInfectious diseasesFurther scale refinementHIVReduced inhibitionClinical samplesPrincipal component factor analysisRisk reductionConsistency reliabilityTreatmentDiseaseConstruct validityTotal sampleComponent factor analysisSexMenGroupFactor analysis