Carl A Latkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 168766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl A Latkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl A |
| FAMILY NAME | Latkin |
| SIGNATURE | LATKIN C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 143 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 400 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 143 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Integrated Mapping Interviews
Naloxone Availability, Testing Drugs for Potency, and Solitary Use
BACKGROUND: Fatal and nonfatal opioid overdoses remain a pressing public health challenge. However, engagement in drug overdose prevention and response behaviors may vary across demographic and social contexts. OBJECTIVES: = 783). Ordered logistic regression models assessed factors associated with three key behaviors: testing-dosing to assess drug potency, naloxone availability while using with others, and solitary drug use. RESULTS: The three ke…
Resilience, ingenuity, and identity
Community Health Workers (CHWs) have an extensive involvement in augmenting service capacities in primary care settings. This study sheds light on the unique experiences of CHWs as they navigate barriers and enablers in the Philippine healthcare setting through their journey for professionalization. This study aims to: (1) Describe the roles assumed by CHWs in rural and remote municipalities in the Philippines; and (2) Identify the multi-level ba…
Patterns of social media use in Vietnamese youths
This study is perhaps the first study to have examined and explored the patterns of social media use amongst Vietnamese youths and to explore the psychological impact of their social media usage. The findings underscores the critical need for a multifaceted approach involving the participation of school and family to foster healthier social media habits and protect mental well-being among youth as well as prepare strategies to early coping with p…
Exploring Contextual Influences on the Implementation and Impact of Safe Streets, a Community Violence Intervention
The social determinants of migrant domestic worker (MDW) health and well-being in the Western Pacific Region
The health and well-being of transnational migrant domestic workers (MDWs) is a pressing but largely neglected public health concern. The Asia Pacific region is home to over 20% of the global MDW population. Living and working conditions, social contexts, political environments, and migration regimes are recognized as consequential to the health of this population, but currently no synthesis of available literature to prioritize research or polic…
Satisfaction Amongst Drug-dependent Population with Methadone Maintenance Treatment Services, A Comparison between Public and Private Clinics
Crucial choices in a global health crisis
Background: The latent monkeypox outbreak has become the most emergent public health challenge globally. This study was conducted to assess the acceptability, and willingness to take and pay for a hypothetical Monkeypox vaccine among the Vietnamese general public as well as investigate preference for individual vaccine attributes. Methods: An online cross-sectional study was conducted using snowball sampling among 842 respondents in Vietnam in 20…
A reverse pattern in work motivation among Vietnamese health care workers during the prolonged Covid-19 outbreak of 2021
Background: The workload burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on health systems requires not only financial support but also long-term and contextualized policies. We assessed the work motivation and its determinants among health workers at Vietnamese hospitals and facilities during the prolonged COVID-19 outbreaks in 2021. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 2814 health care professionals across all three regions of Vietnam from Octo…
HIV stigma and disclosure of alcohol use to physicians
Alcohol use among persons living with HIV (PWH) can lead to poor disease outcomes. Disclosure of alcohol consumption to physicians is critical to inform HIV care. HIV stigma is associated with poor care engagement, and this relationship is partially mediated by depression. However, less is known about how HIV stigma and depression affect reporting of alcohol use to care providers. We used baseline data from an HIV intervention trial of 330 adult …
Changes in Quality of life Outcomes of Patients with HIV/Aids Under a Theory-based Mobile Health Intervention
Overall, Direct, Spillover, and Composite Effects of Components of a Peer-Driven Intervention Package on Injection Risk Behavior Among People Who Inject Drugs in the HPTN 037 Study
Mapping Studies of Alcohol Use Among People Living With Hiv/Aids During 1990–2019 (Gapresearch)
The Intersection of Age and HIV Status for Black Sexual Minority Men (BSMM)
Efficacy of Two Evidence-Based Alcohol Consumption Interventions on Positive, Negative, and Neutral Days Among Hazardous Alcohol Users Living with HIV in Vietnam
Professional Preparedness Implications of Workplace Violence against Medical Students in Hospitals
Workplace violence is an increasing public health concern around the world. In Vietnam, attacks on healthcare workers have become a huge issue in recent years. Our study aims to shed more light on the issue and look at what variables affect acts of violence toward healthcare workers. We conducted this cross-sectional study by surveying 550 medical students from 3 universities in Vietnam. Following this survey on SurveyMonkey's platform (surveymon…
Associations between social network characteristics and sexual minority disclosure concern among Black men who have sex with men living with and without HIV
In addition to the pervasive anti‐Black racism faced by Black people in the United States, Black men who have sex with men (BMSM) face sexual minority stigma and, among BMSM living with HIV, HIV‐related stigma. These multilevel social forces shape social networks, which are important sources of resources, support, and behavior regulation. This study quantitatively examined the relationship between social network characteristics and sexual minorit…
Longitudinal Trajectories of Alcohol Use in Vietnamese Adults with Hazardous Alcohol Use and HIV
Towards efficacy and sustainability of global, regional and national Covid-19 vaccination programs
A s the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep the world, devastating economies and inducing political unrest [1], the approval of COVID-19 vaccines is expected to stop the disease transmission and bring the world back to functioning normally [2]. This paper offers a qualitative examination of six aspects including identify priority populations, optimize vaccine allocation, building global networks, optimize service delivery, risk communication, an…
HIV Transmission Potential and Sex Partner Concurrency
We determined whether racial disparities in HIV infection among gay and bisexual men (MSM) may be partially explained by racial differences in the HIV transmission potential (i.e. mixing of people living with HIV and people not living with HIV or of unknown HIV serostatus) and density (i.e. sex partner concurrency) of sexual networks. Data included a behavioral survey, testing for HIV, and an egocentric sexual network survey. Mixed effects logist…
A Network-Based HIV Prevention Intervention for Tajik Migrant Workers Who Inject Drugs
The Cost-Effectiveness of Adapting and Implementing a Brief Intervention to Target Frequent Alcohol Use Among Persons with HIV in Vietnam
Gaps of Knowledge about HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Industrial Workers in Northern Vietnam
Political partisanship and stigma against people who use drugs in opinions about allocating Covid-19 prevention resources to vulnerable populations
Trust in a Covid-19 vaccine in the U.S
Stressful Neighborhoods and Depression
Quantitative and qualitative research suggests that urban disadvantaged environments may be highly stressful to their inhabitants. Social disorganization may be deleterious to both physical and mental health. The relationships among perceptions of one's neighborhood, measures of social support and social integration, and level of subsequent depressive symptoms was examined with a community sample of 818 individuals screened for an HIV prevention …
Norms, social networks, and HIV-related risk behaviors among urban disadvantaged drug users
Trust in a Covid-19 vaccine in the U.S
Neighborhoods and HIV
Neighborhood factors have been linked to HIV risk behaviors, HIV counseling and testing, and HIV medical care. However, the social-psychological mechanisms that connect neighborhood factors to HIV-related behaviors have not been fully determined. In this article we review the research on neighborhood factors and HIV-related behaviors, approaches to measuring neighborhoods, and mechanisms that may help to explain how the physical and social enviro…
Individual‐level influences on perceptions of neighborhood disorder
Health outcomes are associated with aggregate neighborhood measures and individual neighborhood perceptions. In this study, the authors sought to delineate individual, social network, and spatial factors that may influence perceptions of neighborhood disorder. Multilevel regression analysis showed that neighborhood perceptions were more negative in neighborhoods with higher crime reports. Controlling for neighborhood crime, higher perceptions of …
The efficacy of a network intervention to reduce HIV risk behaviors among drug users and risk partners in Chiang Mai, Thailand and Philadelphia, USA
Residential Transience and Depression
Social Network Characteristics and HIV Sexual Risk Behavior among Urban African American Women
Effects of Race, Neighborhood, and Social Network on Age at Initiation of Injection Drug Use
Objectives. We investigated individual- and neighborhood-level factors associated with adolescent initiation of injection drug use. Methods. Injection drug users (IDUs) who had been injecting 2 to 5 years underwent HIV testing and completed a sociobehavioral risk survey. Modeling techniques accounting for intraneighborhood correlations were used in data analyses. Results. Adolescent-initiating IDUs were less likely than adult-initiating IDUs to r…
Evaluation of a peer network intervention trial among young methamphetamine users in Chiang Mai, Thailand
The long‐term outcome of a personal network‐oriented HIV prevention intervention for injection drug users
Social influence processes have been found to affect numerous drug and health‐related behaviors. We postulated that by using a network‐oriented intervention it may be possible to capitalize on social influence processes to reduce human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk behaviors. The present study used an experimental study design for delivering a psychoeducational acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) preventive intervention to injection dru…
Boredom in Young Adults
Little research has been done on boredom within or across cultures. The authors carried out comparisons of college students in Australia, Hong Kong, Lebanon and the United States with the Boredom Proneness (BP) Scale. A principal component analysis of the four samples revealed similar factor loadings and alpha coefficients. An ANOVA among groups showed a significant main effect of culture. A gender effect was also significant. Australian and U.S.…
Gender Differences in Social Network Influence among Injection Drug Users
The role of neighborhoods in shaping perceived norms
Ethnographic Process Evaluation
This study demonstrates an ethnographically critically informed process evaluation of piloting an HIV intervention program targeting injection drug users. The authors used systematic ethnographic methods to identify and evaluate the factors that facilitated or inhibited message diffusion. Findings indicated that communication patterns and strategies advocated in training sessions did not translate immediately into the outreach encounter in the dr…
Who Lives in Utopia? A Brief Report on the Rajneeshpuram Research Project
Initial results are reported from a longitudinal study of Rajneeshpuram, the Oregon community founded by followers of Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Demographic results indicate residents were young, predominantly white, well educated, and from middle- and upper-middle-class backgrounds. Psychological data indicate the presence of healthy self-perceptions: low levels of depression, high social support, and general life satisfaction. These da…
Gender roles in the experimental community
Application of Space-Time Scan Statistics to Describe Geographic and Temporal Clustering of Visible Drug Activity
Associations between social network characteristics and sexual minority disclosure concern among Black men who have sex with men living with and without HIV
In addition to the pervasive anti‐Black racism faced by Black people in the United States, Black men who have sex with men (BMSM) face sexual minority stigma and, among BMSM living with HIV, HIV‐related stigma. These multilevel social forces shape social networks, which are important sources of resources, support, and behavior regulation. This study quantitatively examined the relationship between social network characteristics and sexual minorit…
The association between neighborhood residential rehabilitation and injection drug use in Baltimore, Maryland, 2000–2011
Social Stability and Health
Network financial support and conflict as predictors of depressive symptoms among a highly disadvantaged population
The study examined multiple dimensions of social support as predictors of depressive symptoms among a highly vulnerable population. Social network analysis was used to assess perceived and enacted dimensions of support (emotional, financial, instrumental), network conflict, closeness, and composition. Participants were 393 current and former injection drug users who were 72% ≤ poverty level, 96% African American, 39% HIV seropositive. At baseline…
Predicting household residency among youth from vulnerable families
Sociodemographic inequalities in substance use among young people in Vietnam
The Role of Partner Support Among Women with Depressive Symptoms
Who Lives in Utopia? A Brief Report on the Rajneeshpuram Research Project
Initial results are reported from a longitudinal study of Rajneeshpuram, the Oregon community founded by followers of Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Demographic results indicate residents were young, predominantly white, well educated, and from middle- and upper-middle-class backgrounds. Psychological data indicate the presence of healthy self-perceptions: low levels of depression, high social support, and general life satisfaction. These da…
Gender roles in the experimental community
The Self-Concept of Rajneeshpuram Commune Members
This study reports on a long-term research project of the former, and controversial, Rajneeshpuram commune. This project (the only systematic empirical study of the group ever undertaken) began in 1982 and continued until the commune's demise in late 1985. The relationship between the individual member's psychological processes and the commune's belief system was examined through the assessment of member's self-concept. The Public, Private, and S…
Boredom in Young Adults
Little research has been done on boredom within or across cultures. The authors carried out comparisons of college students in Australia, Hong Kong, Lebanon and the United States with the Boredom Proneness (BP) Scale. A principal component analysis of the four samples revealed similar factor loadings and alpha coefficients. An ANOVA among groups showed a significant main effect of culture. A gender effect was also significant. Australian and U.S.…
Coping After the Fall
The effects of new religious movements on the mental health of their members are not well understood. In particular, the psychological aftereffects following disaffiliation are controversial. This study examined the psychological well-being of former members of the Rajneeshpuram commune, who relocated after the community disbanded. A mail survey was returned by 231 former Rajneeshpuram residents and 53 university alumni. Respondents reported a ra…
Pitfalls and pratfalls in research on an experimental community
A community psychology perspective guided a field study of the social-psychological aspects of the experimental community of Rajneeshpuram, Oregon. This natural experiment illustrates methodological and theoretical challenges to research on the community level. Entry into the community and the building of rapport was a slow and dynamic process, carried out by several methods, such as feedback from respondents, focus groups, and new approaches to …
Feelings after the Fall
The commune of the disciples of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon disbanded in the fall of 1985. This study examined former Rajneeshpuram residents' affiliation with the movement and personal relationship with Rajneesh 16 to 24 months after they had departed. Two mail surveys were completed by 231 former residents. Respondents continued to affiliate with the movement, and their attitudes toward their experience of living at Rajneeshpu…
Cross-cultural prevention program transfer
The long‐term outcome of a personal network‐oriented HIV prevention intervention for injection drug users
Social influence processes have been found to affect numerous drug and health‐related behaviors. We postulated that by using a network‐oriented intervention it may be possible to capitalize on social influence processes to reduce human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk behaviors. The present study used an experimental study design for delivering a psychoeducational acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) preventive intervention to injection dru…
HIV and Depressive Symptoms Among Low-Income Illicit Drug Users
Social Factors Related to Antiretroviral Therapy Use in Injection Drug Users
Injection Drug Users' Disclosure of HIV Seropositive Status to Network Members
Shun or Support
HIV prevention among drug users
A network-oriented HIV prevention intervention based on social identity theory and peer outreach was implemented for HIV positive and negative drug users. A community sample of 250 were randomly assigned to an equal-attention control condition or a multisession, small-group experimental condition, which encouraged peer outreach; 94% of participants were African American, and 66% used cocaine or opiates. At follow-up, 92% of participants returned,…
Direct and indirect acquisition of syringes from syringe exchange programmes in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Norms, social networks, and HIV-related risk behaviors among urban disadvantaged drug users
Stressful Neighborhoods and Depression
Quantitative and qualitative research suggests that urban disadvantaged environments may be highly stressful to their inhabitants. Social disorganization may be deleterious to both physical and mental health. The relationships among perceptions of one's neighborhood, measures of social support and social integration, and level of subsequent depressive symptoms was examined with a community sample of 818 individuals screened for an HIV prevention …
Correlates of HIV Antibody Testing Among a Sample of Injection Drug Users
Effects of Race, Neighborhood, and Social Network on Age at Initiation of Injection Drug Use
Objectives. We investigated individual- and neighborhood-level factors associated with adolescent initiation of injection drug use. Methods. Injection drug users (IDUs) who had been injecting 2 to 5 years underwent HIV testing and completed a sociobehavioral risk survey. Modeling techniques accounting for intraneighborhood correlations were used in data analyses. Results. Adolescent-initiating IDUs were less likely than adult-initiating IDUs to r…
Ethnographic Process Evaluation
This study demonstrates an ethnographically critically informed process evaluation of piloting an HIV intervention program targeting injection drug users. The authors used systematic ethnographic methods to identify and evaluate the factors that facilitated or inhibited message diffusion. Findings indicated that communication patterns and strategies advocated in training sessions did not translate immediately into the outreach encounter in the dr…
A Qualitative Exploration of Gender in the Context of Injection Drug Use in Two US–Mexico Border Cities
The Impact of Drug Use on Perceptions of Credibility in Indigenous Outreach Workers
The authors conducted an investigation of perceptions of outreach worker credibility using the social network members (N = 20) of indigenous outreach workers in an HIV/AIDS prevention intervention. The network members included in the study received semistructured interviews following the program's completion. Outreach workers who were not actively using illicit drugs were more likely to be described as credible than were those who were using drug…
Direct and Indirect Associations of Neighborhood Disorder With Drug Use and High-Risk Sexual Partners
Residential Transience and HIV Risk Behaviors Among Injection Drug Users
The Effect of a Case Management Intervention on Drug Treatment Entry Among Treatment-Seeking Injection Drug Users With and Without Comorbid Antisocial Personality Disorder
Medicine (125 works) · Psychology (91 works) · Psychiatry (79 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (75 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (63 works) · Public health (62 works) · Demography (61 works) · Environmental health (61 works) · Family medicine (57 works) · Demography (54 works)