Sonya S Brady
Biographic Data
| ID | 190136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonya S Brady |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonya S |
| FAMILY NAME | Brady |
| SIGNATURE | BRADY S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8660-9308 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Dyspareunia and Functioning Among Somali Women Who Have Experienced Female Genital Cutting
Female genital cutting (FGC) results in a higher risk for sexual issues in impacted women. This study examined this impact in a sample of 300 women identifying as Somali and living in the United States. FGC is highly prevalent in Somalia, with rates as high as 98%. Bilingual community researchers recruited participants from community and clinic spaces. Participants completed a survey using standardized measures and team-created questionnaires, in…
Financial Strain Across 25 years and Men’s Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms
This research utilizes Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) cohort study data to examine whether financial strain is associated with subsequent lower urinary tract symptoms among men and whether healthcare barriers, health risk behaviors, and comorbid conditions explain this association. CARDIA recruited Black and White participants aged 18 to 30 years at baseline (1985–1986) from four United States cities. The analytic sampl…
Discerning Deinfibulation
The past decades have seen large numbers of Somali women migrate across the globe. It is critical for healthcare workers in host countries to understand healthcare needs of Somali women. The majority of Somali female migrants experience female genital cutting (FGC). The most common type in Somalia is Type 3 or infibulation, the narrowing of the vaginal introitus. Deinfibulation opens the introitus to reduce poor health outcomes and/or allow for v…
Ethnic and racial social identity, socioeconomic position, and women's bladder health
Psychosocial risk and protective factors for men's lower urinary tract symptoms
This study is a secondary analysis of Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults data examining whether men's experience of psychosocial factors from baseline (1985-1986), when men were aged 18-30 years, through 25 years of follow-up (2010-2011) are associated with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in 2012-2013. Consistent with previous literature, adverse childhood family environment (OR = 1.24, 95% CI 1.07, 1.43) and depressive symptoms…
Interpersonal, Community, and Institutional Influences on Sexual Consent Among Fraternity and Sorority Students in the Context of a Hookup
College sexual assault is a persistent public health problem in the United States. A public health approach to develop effective prevention strategies must take into account the social ecology of college campuses, including interpersonal-, community-, and institutional-level factors that may influence sexual assault. To maximize effectiveness, prevention strategies should be tailored to reflect contextual factors of specific college communities a…
Discrimination and bladder health among women in the Cardia cohort study
Contextual and Behavioral Correlates of Coping Strategies Among an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Urban Adolescents in the Midwestern United States
Coping is recognized as an important life skill. In the present cross-sectional analysis, early adolescents' relationships with their caregivers (support, conflict) and exposure to stressors (uncontrollable life events, violence) were examined as contextual correlates of both positive and negative coping strategies. Coping strategies were examined as mediators of associations between adolescents' family and community contexts and adjustment outco…
Sex in the Context of Substance Use
But He Loves Me
Romantic relationships can positively affect adolescent development. However, adolescents may not always have a clear understanding of what healthy dating looks like, which may place some adolescents at risk for dating violence. The present study examined the following research questions: (1) What are adolescents' perceptions of healthy and unhealthy attributes of romantic relationships? (2) How do adolescents perceive jealousy and potentially co…
Social Processes Informing Toileting Behavior Among Adolescent and Adult Women
Little is known about social processes shaping adolescent and adult women’s toileting behaviors. The “Study of Habits, Attitudes, Realities, and Experiences” (SHARE) examines adolescent and adult women’s experiences related to bladder health across the life course. Forty-four focus groups with 360 participants organized by six age groups were conducted across seven sites. A transdisciplinary team used social cognitive theory as an interpretive le…
Response to Commentaries
Response to Commentaries
Converging on Bladder Health through Design Thinking
Lower urinary tract symptoms affect a substantial number of women in the United States (U.S.) and globally. In 2015, the Prevention of Lower Urinary tract Symptoms in women (PLUS) Research Consortium was funded to establish the scientific basis for prevention efforts by (1) understanding healthy bladder function and (2) identifying risk and protective factors for bladder health in women across the lifecourse. This transdisciplinary consortium gen…
Perceptions of Violent Encounters between Police and Young Black Men across Stakeholder Groups
U.S. Adolescent and Adult Women’s Experiences Accessing and Using Toilets in Schools, Workplaces, and Public Spaces
The World Health Organization recognizes access to clean and safe toilets as crucial for public health. This study explored U.S. adolescent and adult cisgender women's lived experiences accessing toilets in schools, workplaces, and public spaces. As part of the Prevention of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (PLUS) Research Consortium, we conducted 44 focus groups with female participants (n = 360; ages 11-93). Focus groups were stratified by age (11-…
Risk of Contraceptive Lapse and New Sexual Partnership Among Female University Students Traveling Internationally
If the findings are corroborated by additional research, they may suggest a role for health care providers in students' pretravel period
Stressful Life Circumstances, Resources for Support, and African American Children's Psychological Symptoms
This brief report examines African American children's and caregivers' exposure to stressors and perceived support in relation to children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Forty-six children aged 8 to 12 years and their primary caregivers were recruited from an urban school in the Midwestern United States and interviewed separately. Adjusting for child's age and gender, caregiver's gender, and number of caregivers in the family, child-…
Positive and negative aspects of relationship quality and unprotected sex among young women
The aim of this study was to examine both positive and negative aspects of relationship quality in relation to condom use. Sexually active young women aged 14-18 years (n=111; 34% non-white) were recruited from community clinics and schools in the Midwest USA and provided data via an online survey. The number of unprotected sex acts in the past month with the most recent male partner was regressed on relationship quality with that partner, adjust…
African American caregivers' resources for support
Academic Behavior and Performance Among African American Youth
Sexually Experienced Adolescents’ Thoughts About Sexual Pleasure
Little research on adolescents has examined developmentally normative facets of sexuality that are not obviously linked to physical health. The purpose of this secondary data analysis was to qualitatively analyze adolescents' thoughts about and experiences with sexual pleasure. The study sample consisted of 56 sexually experienced, ethnically diverse, predominantly female adolescents who were participating in a Web-based intervention to promote h…
Stress‐Related Externalizing Behavior among African American Youth
Externalizing behavior among many disadvantaged African American youth may be a response to structurally embedded stressors and inequities within the home, school, and community. Inadequate resources may lead professionals to focus solely on children's behavior, without also addressing underlying affective symptoms, such as depression, and related attitudes, such as low academic investment. Youth assets and resources for resilience fostered by pa…
Performance of the Duke Religion Index and the Spiritual Well-Being Scale in Online Samples of Men Who Have Sex with Men
The Effects of Gay Sexually Explicit Media on the HIV Risk Behavior of Men Who Have Sex with Men
Individual versus neighborhood socioeconomic status and race as predictors of adolescent ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate
Sexually Experienced Adolescents’ Thoughts About Sexual Pleasure
Little research on adolescents has examined developmentally normative facets of sexuality that are not obviously linked to physical health. The purpose of this secondary data analysis was to qualitatively analyze adolescents' thoughts about and experiences with sexual pleasure. The study sample consisted of 56 sexually experienced, ethnically diverse, predominantly female adolescents who were participating in a Web-based intervention to promote h…
Perceptions of Violent Encounters between Police and Young Black Men across Stakeholder Groups
Stress‐Related Externalizing Behavior among African American Youth
Externalizing behavior among many disadvantaged African American youth may be a response to structurally embedded stressors and inequities within the home, school, and community. Inadequate resources may lead professionals to focus solely on children's behavior, without also addressing underlying affective symptoms, such as depression, and related attitudes, such as low academic investment. Youth assets and resources for resilience fostered by pa…
But He Loves Me
Romantic relationships can positively affect adolescent development. However, adolescents may not always have a clear understanding of what healthy dating looks like, which may place some adolescents at risk for dating violence. The present study examined the following research questions: (1) What are adolescents' perceptions of healthy and unhealthy attributes of romantic relationships? (2) How do adolescents perceive jealousy and potentially co…
Stressful Life Circumstances, Resources for Support, and African American Children's Psychological Symptoms
This brief report examines African American children's and caregivers' exposure to stressors and perceived support in relation to children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Forty-six children aged 8 to 12 years and their primary caregivers were recruited from an urban school in the Midwestern United States and interviewed separately. Adjusting for child's age and gender, caregiver's gender, and number of caregivers in the family, child-…
Social and Emotional Consequences of Refraining From Sexual Activity Among Sexually Experienced and Inexperienced Youths in California
Objectives. We examined the social and emotional consequences among adolescents of refraining from sexual activity (oral or vaginal sex) and whether these consequences differed over time and by gender and sexual experience. Methods. Adolescents (N=612; 58% female) recruited from 2 schools were assessed at 4 time points separated by 6-month intervals, beginning in fall of ninth grade. Results. The percentage of adolescents who reported only positi…
Response to Commentaries
African American caregivers' resources for support
Discerning Deinfibulation
The past decades have seen large numbers of Somali women migrate across the globe. It is critical for healthcare workers in host countries to understand healthcare needs of Somali women. The majority of Somali female migrants experience female genital cutting (FGC). The most common type in Somalia is Type 3 or infibulation, the narrowing of the vaginal introitus. Deinfibulation opens the introitus to reduce poor health outcomes and/or allow for v…
Interpersonal, Community, and Institutional Influences on Sexual Consent Among Fraternity and Sorority Students in the Context of a Hookup
College sexual assault is a persistent public health problem in the United States. A public health approach to develop effective prevention strategies must take into account the social ecology of college campuses, including interpersonal-, community-, and institutional-level factors that may influence sexual assault. To maximize effectiveness, prevention strategies should be tailored to reflect contextual factors of specific college communities a…
Discrimination and bladder health among women in the Cardia cohort study
Academic Behavior and Performance Among African American Youth
Young adults' media use and attitudes toward interpersonal and institutional forms of aggression
Links between media violence exposure and favorable attitudes toward interpersonal violence are well established, but few studies have examined whether associations extend to include favorable attitudes toward institutional forms of aggression. Studies on this topic have not assessed multiple forms of media use and statistically controlled for individual characteristics likely to influence attitudes beyond sociodemographic information. In this st…
Cardiovascular Reactivity to Stress Predicts Future Blood Pressure in Adolescence
OBJECTIVE: This study evaluated the prospective relationship between cardiovascular reactivity to psychological stress and increases in resting blood pressure across a 3-year period among a multiethnic pediatric sample (N = 149). METHODS: Systolic and diastolic blood pressure; EKG heart rate, pre-ejection period, and mean successive difference of R to R intervals; and impedance-derived measures of cardiac output, stroke volume, and total peripher…
Individual versus neighborhood socioeconomic status and race as predictors of adolescent ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate
Young adults' media use and attitudes toward interpersonal and institutional forms of aggression
Links between media violence exposure and favorable attitudes toward interpersonal violence are well established, but few studies have examined whether associations extend to include favorable attitudes toward institutional forms of aggression. Studies on this topic have not assessed multiple forms of media use and statistically controlled for individual characteristics likely to influence attitudes beyond sociodemographic information. In this st…
Social and Emotional Consequences of Refraining From Sexual Activity Among Sexually Experienced and Inexperienced Youths in California
Objectives. We examined the social and emotional consequences among adolescents of refraining from sexual activity (oral or vaginal sex) and whether these consequences differed over time and by gender and sexual experience. Methods. Adolescents (N=612; 58% female) recruited from 2 schools were assessed at 4 time points separated by 6-month intervals, beginning in fall of ninth grade. Results. The percentage of adolescents who reported only positi…
Open, Closed, or In Between
Performance of the Duke Religion Index and the Spiritual Well-Being Scale in Online Samples of Men Who Have Sex with Men
The Effects of Gay Sexually Explicit Media on the HIV Risk Behavior of Men Who Have Sex with Men
Stress‐Related Externalizing Behavior among African American Youth
Externalizing behavior among many disadvantaged African American youth may be a response to structurally embedded stressors and inequities within the home, school, and community. Inadequate resources may lead professionals to focus solely on children's behavior, without also addressing underlying affective symptoms, such as depression, and related attitudes, such as low academic investment. Youth assets and resources for resilience fostered by pa…
Positive and negative aspects of relationship quality and unprotected sex among young women
The aim of this study was to examine both positive and negative aspects of relationship quality in relation to condom use. Sexually active young women aged 14-18 years (n=111; 34% non-white) were recruited from community clinics and schools in the Midwest USA and provided data via an online survey. The number of unprotected sex acts in the past month with the most recent male partner was regressed on relationship quality with that partner, adjust…
African American caregivers' resources for support
Academic Behavior and Performance Among African American Youth
Sexually Experienced Adolescents’ Thoughts About Sexual Pleasure
Little research on adolescents has examined developmentally normative facets of sexuality that are not obviously linked to physical health. The purpose of this secondary data analysis was to qualitatively analyze adolescents' thoughts about and experiences with sexual pleasure. The study sample consisted of 56 sexually experienced, ethnically diverse, predominantly female adolescents who were participating in a Web-based intervention to promote h…
Stressful Life Circumstances, Resources for Support, and African American Children's Psychological Symptoms
This brief report examines African American children's and caregivers' exposure to stressors and perceived support in relation to children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Forty-six children aged 8 to 12 years and their primary caregivers were recruited from an urban school in the Midwestern United States and interviewed separately. Adjusting for child's age and gender, caregiver's gender, and number of caregivers in the family, child-…
Risk of Contraceptive Lapse and New Sexual Partnership Among Female University Students Traveling Internationally
If the findings are corroborated by additional research, they may suggest a role for health care providers in students' pretravel period
U.S. Adolescent and Adult Women’s Experiences Accessing and Using Toilets in Schools, Workplaces, and Public Spaces
The World Health Organization recognizes access to clean and safe toilets as crucial for public health. This study explored U.S. adolescent and adult cisgender women's lived experiences accessing toilets in schools, workplaces, and public spaces. As part of the Prevention of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (PLUS) Research Consortium, we conducted 44 focus groups with female participants (n = 360; ages 11-93). Focus groups were stratified by age (11-…
Converging on Bladder Health through Design Thinking
Lower urinary tract symptoms affect a substantial number of women in the United States (U.S.) and globally. In 2015, the Prevention of Lower Urinary tract Symptoms in women (PLUS) Research Consortium was funded to establish the scientific basis for prevention efforts by (1) understanding healthy bladder function and (2) identifying risk and protective factors for bladder health in women across the lifecourse. This transdisciplinary consortium gen…
Perceptions of Violent Encounters between Police and Young Black Men across Stakeholder Groups
Social Processes Informing Toileting Behavior Among Adolescent and Adult Women
Little is known about social processes shaping adolescent and adult women’s toileting behaviors. The “Study of Habits, Attitudes, Realities, and Experiences” (SHARE) examines adolescent and adult women’s experiences related to bladder health across the life course. Forty-four focus groups with 360 participants organized by six age groups were conducted across seven sites. A transdisciplinary team used social cognitive theory as an interpretive le…
Response to Commentaries
Response to Commentaries
Sex in the Context of Substance Use
But He Loves Me
Romantic relationships can positively affect adolescent development. However, adolescents may not always have a clear understanding of what healthy dating looks like, which may place some adolescents at risk for dating violence. The present study examined the following research questions: (1) What are adolescents' perceptions of healthy and unhealthy attributes of romantic relationships? (2) How do adolescents perceive jealousy and potentially co…
Contextual and Behavioral Correlates of Coping Strategies Among an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Urban Adolescents in the Midwestern United States
Coping is recognized as an important life skill. In the present cross-sectional analysis, early adolescents' relationships with their caregivers (support, conflict) and exposure to stressors (uncontrollable life events, violence) were examined as contextual correlates of both positive and negative coping strategies. Coping strategies were examined as mediators of associations between adolescents' family and community contexts and adjustment outco…
Interpersonal, Community, and Institutional Influences on Sexual Consent Among Fraternity and Sorority Students in the Context of a Hookup
College sexual assault is a persistent public health problem in the United States. A public health approach to develop effective prevention strategies must take into account the social ecology of college campuses, including interpersonal-, community-, and institutional-level factors that may influence sexual assault. To maximize effectiveness, prevention strategies should be tailored to reflect contextual factors of specific college communities a…
Discrimination and bladder health among women in the Cardia cohort study
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