Michael B Blank
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 175574 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael B Blank |
| NOMBRES | Michael B |
| APELLIDO | Blank |
| FIRMA | BLANK M B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6150-4777 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 103 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
It’s Better If I Die Because Even in the Hospital, There is a Stigma, People Still Gossip”
Suicide risk among persons living with HIV
Persons living with HIV (PLWH) are significantly more likely to die by suicide compared to the general population. This is the first study to examine the impact of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depressive disorder (MDD), insomnia, and substance use disorders on suicidal ideation/behavior among PLWH using electronic medical record (EMR) data. We also evaluated the mutual influence of interactions between PTSD and substance use disord…
Under-documentation of psychiatric diagnoses among persons living with HIV in electronic medical records
Persons living with HIV (PLWH) are significantly more likely to meet criteria for a psychiatric disorder compared to the general population. To our knowledge there are no prior studies that report rates of psychiatric diagnosis documentation in electronic medical records (EMRs) of PLWH. The goal for this study was to report the rates of a variety of psychiatric diagnoses among PLWH in electronic medical records. Participants (n = 2,336) were enro…
HIV Infection and Depression Among Opiate Users in a US Epicenter of the Opioid Epidemic
Stigma, Structural Vulnerability, and “What Matters Most” Among Women Living With HIV in Botswana, 2017
Objectives. To explore whether beneficial health care policies, when implemented in the context of gender inequality, yield unintended structural consequences that stigmatize and ostracize women with HIV from “what matters most” in local culture. Methods. We conducted 46 in-depth interviews and 5 focus groups (38 individuals) with men and women living with and without HIV in Gaborone, Botswana, in 2017. Results. Cultural imperatives to bear child…
Identifying "What Matters Most" to Men in Botswana to Promote Resistance to HIV-Related Stigma
Despite a comprehensive national program of free HIV services, men living with HIV in Botswana participate at lower rates and have worse outcomes than women. Directed content analysis of five focus groups ( n = 38) and 50 in-depth interviews with men and women with known and unknown HIV status in Gaborone, Botswana in 2017 used the "what matters most" (WMM) and "structural vulnerability" frameworks to examine how the most valued cultural aspects …
Psychometric Validation of a Scale to Assess Culturally-Salient Aspects of HIV Stigma Among Women Living with HIV in Botswana
Free Format Submission for JCOP
Causal Pathways Between Severe Mental Illness and Behaviors Related to HIV
It's When the Trees Blossom
Mental illness is a common comorbidity of HIV and complicates treatment. In Botswana, stigma impedes treatment of mental illness. We examined explanatory beliefs about mental illness, stigma, and interactions between HIV and mental illness among 42 adults, from HIV clinic and community settings, via thematic analysis of interviews. Respondents endorse witchcraft as a predominant causal belief, in addition to drug abuse and effects of HIV. Respond…
Prevalence of HIV Viral Load Suppression Among Psychiatric Inpatients with Comorbid Substance Use Disorders
Does Diagnosis Make a Difference? Estimating the Impact of an HIV Medication Adherence Intervention for Persons with Serious Mental Illness
HIV Prevalence Among Hospitalized Patients at the Main Psychiatric Referral Hospital in Botswana
Integrated Psychological Science
Coercion or Caring
Violence as a Public Health Problem
Editors’ Commentary on the Special Issue on African and Arab Enactments of Community Psychology
Using Psychological Theory to Predict Voting Intentions
Voting is an essential component of civic engagement. To demonstrate the utility of a reasoned action approach to predict voting, we created an instrument that measured non‐normative political beliefs and voting intentions. We identified political beliefs and attitudes of the Republican Party, Democratic Party, Libertarian Party, Tea Party, and Occupy Wall Street Movement. A total of 2,637 participants from Mechanical Turk completed the survey us…
The CDC Clearance Process
A Multisite Study of the Prevalence of HIV With Rapid Testing in Mental Health Settings
Objectives. We estimated HIV prevalence and risk factors among persons receiving mental health treatment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland, January 2009 to August 2011. Methods. We used a multisite, cross-sectional design stratified by clinical setting. We tested 1061 individuals for HIV in university-based inpatient psychiatric units (n = 287), intensive case-management programs (n = 273), and community mental health centers…
Determining the Cost-Savings Threshold for HIV Adherence Intervention Studies for Persons with Serious Mental Illness and HIV
Travel Distance to HIV Medical Care
Increasing Quality of Life and Reducing HIV Burden
A Reasoned Action Approach to HIV Prevention for Persons with Serious Mental Illness
There is confusion regarding reason and rational thought as a precondition for interventions designed using a reasoned action approach. To test their feasibility, two interventions were developed for use with persons with mental illnesses, using the reasoned action model. Preventing AIDS through Health (PATH) was delivered one-on-one by case managers to persons with mental illnesses who were HIV sero-negative, and another (PATH PLUS) was delivere…
Restorative Magical Adventure or Warcrack? Motivated MMO Play and the Pleasures and Perils of Online Experience
Combining perspectives from the new science of happiness with discussions regarding "problematic" and "addictive" play in multiplayer online games, the authors examine how player motivations pattern both positive and negative gaming experiences. Specifically, using ethnographic interviews and a survey, the authors explore the utility of Yee's three-factor motivational framework for explaining the positive or negative quality of experiences in the…
Alternative Mental Health Services
Objectives. This study determined the extent to which churches in the South were providing mental health and social services to congregations and had established linkages with formal systems of care. Methods. A computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) survey was conducted with pastors from 269 Southern churches. Results. Black churches reported providing many more services than did White churches, regardless of urban or rural location. Few li…
Barriers to Help Seeking for Mental Disorders in a Rural Impoverished Population
Restorative Magical Adventure or Warcrack? Motivated MMO Play and the Pleasures and Perils of Online Experience
Combining perspectives from the new science of happiness with discussions regarding "problematic" and "addictive" play in multiplayer online games, the authors examine how player motivations pattern both positive and negative gaming experiences. Specifically, using ethnographic interviews and a survey, the authors explore the utility of Yee's three-factor motivational framework for explaining the positive or negative quality of experiences in the…
Racial matching and service utilization among seriously mentally Ill consumers in the rural south
Critical issues in reforming rural mental health service delivery
A Multisite Study of the Prevalence of HIV With Rapid Testing in Mental Health Settings
Objectives. We estimated HIV prevalence and risk factors among persons receiving mental health treatment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland, January 2009 to August 2011. Methods. We used a multisite, cross-sectional design stratified by clinical setting. We tested 1061 individuals for HIV in university-based inpatient psychiatric units (n = 287), intensive case-management programs (n = 273), and community mental health centers…
Case manager follow-up to failed appointments and subsequent service utilization
Stigma, Structural Vulnerability, and “What Matters Most” Among Women Living With HIV in Botswana, 2017
Objectives. To explore whether beneficial health care policies, when implemented in the context of gender inequality, yield unintended structural consequences that stigmatize and ostracize women with HIV from “what matters most” in local culture. Methods. We conducted 46 in-depth interviews and 5 focus groups (38 individuals) with men and women living with and without HIV in Gaborone, Botswana, in 2017. Results. Cultural imperatives to bear child…
Identifying "What Matters Most" to Men in Botswana to Promote Resistance to HIV-Related Stigma
Despite a comprehensive national program of free HIV services, men living with HIV in Botswana participate at lower rates and have worse outcomes than women. Directed content analysis of five focus groups ( n = 38) and 50 in-depth interviews with men and women with known and unknown HIV status in Gaborone, Botswana in 2017 used the "what matters most" (WMM) and "structural vulnerability" frameworks to examine how the most valued cultural aspects …
It's When the Trees Blossom
Mental illness is a common comorbidity of HIV and complicates treatment. In Botswana, stigma impedes treatment of mental illness. We examined explanatory beliefs about mental illness, stigma, and interactions between HIV and mental illness among 42 adults, from HIV clinic and community settings, via thematic analysis of interviews. Respondents endorse witchcraft as a predominant causal belief, in addition to drug abuse and effects of HIV. Respond…
Case Managers Discovering What Recovery Means Through an HIV Prevention Intervention
The CDC Clearance Process
Npact
Causal Pathways Between Severe Mental Illness and Behaviors Related to HIV
Determining the Cost-Savings Threshold for HIV Adherence Intervention Studies for Persons with Serious Mental Illness and HIV
A Reasoned Action Approach to HIV Prevention for Persons with Serious Mental Illness
There is confusion regarding reason and rational thought as a precondition for interventions designed using a reasoned action approach. To test their feasibility, two interventions were developed for use with persons with mental illnesses, using the reasoned action model. Preventing AIDS through Health (PATH) was delivered one-on-one by case managers to persons with mental illnesses who were HIV sero-negative, and another (PATH PLUS) was delivere…
Using Psychiatric Symptomatology to Assess Risk for HIV Infection in Individuals with Severe Mental Illness
Racial matching and service utilization among seriously mentally Ill consumers in the rural south
Critical issues in reforming rural mental health service delivery
Introduction to special issue rural mental health theory and practice
Case manager follow-up to failed appointments and subsequent service utilization
Introduction to special issue health care reform and rural special populations
Rural Mental Health Leaders' Perceptions of Stigma and Community Issues
This paper provides a description of the attitudes of rural leaders toward mental health issues using data collected in two rural counties (one in Virginia and one in North Carolina). Study participants (N=63) are individuals identified as leaders making a significant positive contribution to mental health issues in each county. While the counties were matched on a number of demographic characteristics, the counties had one difference believed im…
Barriers to Help Seeking for Mental Disorders in a Rural Impoverished Population
Alternative Mental Health Services
Objectives. This study determined the extent to which churches in the South were providing mental health and social services to congregations and had established linkages with formal systems of care. Methods. A computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) survey was conducted with pastors from 269 Southern churches. Results. Black churches reported providing many more services than did White churches, regardless of urban or rural location. Few li…
Npact
In remembrance
Empirically Supported Treatments in Rural Community Mental Health Centers
Challenges in Addressing Depression in HIV Research
Case Managers Discovering What Recovery Means Through an HIV Prevention Intervention
Using Psychiatric Symptomatology to Assess Risk for HIV Infection in Individuals with Severe Mental Illness
A Reasoned Action Approach to HIV Prevention for Persons with Serious Mental Illness
There is confusion regarding reason and rational thought as a precondition for interventions designed using a reasoned action approach. To test their feasibility, two interventions were developed for use with persons with mental illnesses, using the reasoned action model. Preventing AIDS through Health (PATH) was delivered one-on-one by case managers to persons with mental illnesses who were HIV sero-negative, and another (PATH PLUS) was delivere…
Restorative Magical Adventure or Warcrack? Motivated MMO Play and the Pleasures and Perils of Online Experience
Combining perspectives from the new science of happiness with discussions regarding "problematic" and "addictive" play in multiplayer online games, the authors examine how player motivations pattern both positive and negative gaming experiences. Specifically, using ethnographic interviews and a survey, the authors explore the utility of Yee's three-factor motivational framework for explaining the positive or negative quality of experiences in the…
Travel Distance to HIV Medical Care
Increasing Quality of Life and Reducing HIV Burden
A Multisite Study of the Prevalence of HIV With Rapid Testing in Mental Health Settings
Objectives. We estimated HIV prevalence and risk factors among persons receiving mental health treatment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland, January 2009 to August 2011. Methods. We used a multisite, cross-sectional design stratified by clinical setting. We tested 1061 individuals for HIV in university-based inpatient psychiatric units (n = 287), intensive case-management programs (n = 273), and community mental health centers…
Determining the Cost-Savings Threshold for HIV Adherence Intervention Studies for Persons with Serious Mental Illness and HIV
Violence as a Public Health Problem
Editors’ Commentary on the Special Issue on African and Arab Enactments of Community Psychology
Using Psychological Theory to Predict Voting Intentions
Voting is an essential component of civic engagement. To demonstrate the utility of a reasoned action approach to predict voting, we created an instrument that measured non‐normative political beliefs and voting intentions. We identified political beliefs and attitudes of the Republican Party, Democratic Party, Libertarian Party, Tea Party, and Occupy Wall Street Movement. A total of 2,637 participants from Mechanical Turk completed the survey us…
The CDC Clearance Process
Coercion or Caring
Medicine (32 obras) · Psychiatry (30 obras) · Psychology (23 obras) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (21 obras) · Mental health (20 obras) · Family medicine (14 obras) · Environmental health (13 obras) · Mental illness (13 obras) · Population (12 obras) · Public health (12 obras)