Mary Ellen Mackesy-Amiti

Biographic Data

ID	5220422
NAME	Mary Ellen Mackesy-Amiti
GIVEN NAMES	Mary Ellen
FAMILY NAME	Mackesy-Amiti
SIGNATURE	MACKESY-AMITI M E
AFFILIATIONS	University of Illinois Chicago
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	14
TOTAL CITATIONS	10
AUTHOR COUNT	14
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2025
H-INDEX	2

Peer education intervention reduced sexually transmitted infections among male Tajik labor migrants who inject drugs
Open AccessMary Ellen Mackesy‐amiti, Mary Ellen Mackesy-Amiti et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025
ClinicalTrials.gov, 2021-04-16, NCT04853394
Associations among drug acquisition and use behaviors, psychosocial attributes, and opioid-involved overdoses
Open AccessJames A Swartz, Peipei Zhao et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024
Psychosocial attributes, particularly homelessness, increase the probability of an overdose through associations with risky drug acquisition and drug-using behaviors. Further research is needed to replicate these findings with populations at high-risk of an opioid-related overdose to assess generalizability and refine the metrics used to assess psychosocial characteristics
A Novel Index Measure of Housing-Related Risk as a Predictor of Overdose Among Young People Who Inject Drugs and Injection Networks
Open AccessKathleen Kristensen, Leslie D Williams et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2023
Background: For people who inject drugs (PWID), housing instability due to decreasing housing affordability and other factors (e.g., loss of housing due to severed relational ties, evictions due to drug use) results in added pressure on an already vulnerable population. Research has shown that housing instability is associated with overdose risk among PWID. However, the construct of housing instability has often been operationalized as a single d…
Injection partnership characteristics and HCV status associations with syringe and equipment sharing among people who inject drugs
Open AccessMary Ellen Mackesy‐amiti, Mary Ellen Mackesy-Amiti et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023
PWID regulate their syringe and other injection equipment sharing to some extent by sharing preferentially with injection partners with whom they have a close personal or intimate relationship, and whose HCV status they are more likely to know. Our findings underscore the need for risk interventions and HCV treatment strategies to consider the social context of syringe and equipment sharing within partnerships
Syringe service program-based telemedicine linkage to opioid use disorder treatment
Open AccessDennis P Watson, James A Swartz et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021
ClinicalTrials.gov (Clinical Trials ID: NCT04575324 and Protocol Number: 1138-0420). Registered 29 September 2020. The study protocol is also registered on the Open Science Framework (DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/4853 M)
Virological Non-suppression and Its Correlates Among Adolescents and Young People Living with HIV in Southern Malawi
Open AccessEric Umar, Judith A Levy et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2018
Transitions in Latent Classes of Sexual Risk Behavior Among Young Injection Drug Users Following HIV Prevention Intervention
Open AccessMary Ellen Mackesy‐amiti, Mary Ellen Mackesy-Amiti et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2013
We analyzed data from a large randomized HIV/HCV prevention intervention trial with young injection drug users (IDUs). Using categorical latent variable analysis, we identified distinct classes of sexual behavior for men and women. We conducted a latent transition analysis to test the effect of the intervention on transitions from higher to lower risk classes. Men who were in a high-risk class at baseline who received the intervention were 86 % m…
Sexual Risk Behavior Associated with Transition to Injection Among Young Non-Injecting Heroin Users
Open AccessMary Ellen Mackesy‐amiti, Mary Ellen Mackesy-Amiti et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2012
Sexual Risk Behavior and Drug Use in Two Chicago Samples of Men Who Have Sex with Men
Open AccessMichael Fendrich, Mary Ellen Mackesy‐amiti et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2010Cited by: 4References: 1
Identifying Hidden Sexual Bridging Communities in Chicago
Open AccessYoosik Youm, Mary Ellen Mackesy‐amiti et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2009Cited by: 3References: 3
Computer Literacy and the Accuracy of Substance Use Reporting in an Acasi Survey
Open AccessTimothy P Johnson, Michael Fendrich et al.ARTICLESocial Science Computer Review2009Cited by: 1References: 5
In recent years, audio computer-assisted self-interviews (ACASI) have been demonstrated to increase and presumably improve the quality of drug reporting in epidemiologic research. Surprisingly little research is available, however, regarding the potential limitations of this technique. For example, it is unclear what effects computer literacy may have on the validity of substance use information collected via ACASI. Respondents with limited compu…
Measuring Sexual Risk for HIV
Open AccessMichael Fendrich, Everett V Smith et al.ARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2009References: 47
The Effect of Intimate Partner Violence on Receptive Syringe Sharing Among Young Female Injection Drug Users
Open AccessK D Wagner, Sharon Hudson et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2007
Inconsistencies in lifetime cocaine and marijuana use reports
Open AccessMichael Fendrich, Mary Ellen Mackesy‐amiti et al.ARTICLEAddiction2003Cited by: 2References: 3
We evaluated inconsistencies in responses to questions about lifetime cocaine and marijuana use asked of nearly 10,000 respondents from the United States in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in 1984 and 1988. Our analyses showed that 14% of all responses on cocaine use and 17% of all responses on marijuana use were inconsistent in some way. The types of inconsistencies varied according to the substance; cocaine reports yielded more incons…