Julie Barroso
Biographic Data
| ID | 119385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Barroso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie |
| FAMILY NAME | Barroso |
| SIGNATURE | BARROSO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8751-9128 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 235 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Research-based narrative videos to reduce stigma
Introduction: Older women living with HIV (WLWH) experience a heightened burden of stigma, compounded by age, gender, social isolation, and depression. Despite growing recognition of these challenges, few stigma reduction interventions are specifically designed for this population, particularly in the Southern United States. Methods: We explored the acceptability, personal relevance, and perceived effectiveness of a stigma reduction video series …
Understanding PrEP Contemplation Among Black Women
Barriers and facilitators to engagement in care and medication adherence for women living with HIV in the Southern United States
Women living in the South have the second highest rate of HIV and the lowest rate of viral suppression among women in all regions in the United States (U.S.). Viral suppression is achieved by successfully linking women to HIV care and supporting adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART). We aimed to qualitatively explore perceived barriers and facilitators to HIV care engagement and ART adherence among women living with HIV in the South. Particip…
Peer advice for women living with HIV in the Southern USA
Peer advice can provide emotional, social and practical assistance for the sustained self-management of chronic conditions. For stigmatised diseases such as HIV, finding support can be challenging. Women living with HIV in the Southern USA are additionally impacted upon by region-specific barriers such as stigma, poverty and limited access to services. The effectiveness of peer advice has been studied, yet little is known about the advice shared …
A Communication Model to Bridge Adolescent Patients, Caregivers, and Physicians in Transitions of Care
A transition of care (TOC) process from pediatric to adult medicine ensures that adolescents receive ongoing care into young adulthood, a time of high risk for preventable morbidity and mortality. We explored patient, caregiver, and physician perspectives on ways to improve TOC communication with healthy adolescents. Two researchers conducted key informant interviews with healthy 12- to 18-year-old adolescents, their caregivers, and primary care …
The Reproductive Health Priorities, Concerns, and Needs of Women in Midlife
Reproductive health research rarely involves the inclusion of women over 40, creating a large knowledge gap regarding women in midlife. Women continue to have reproductive health needs, concerns, and priorities up to the point of menopause that should be examined to improve reproductive health outcomes and provide individualized care. In-depth, individual, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 women between the ages of 40 and 55 who h…
Topics for Inclusive Parent-Child Sex Communication by Gay, Bisexual, Queer Youth
The purposes of this study were to identify the sexuality-related topics parents and gay, bisexual, or queer (GBQ) adolescent males discussed at home and to describe the topics GBQ adolescent males recommend for parents to discuss with future cohorts of GBQ youth. Minimal research on parent-child sex communication with sexual minority adolescents prevents the development of interventions that would benefit adolescent males with same-sex attractio…
Lessons learned from applying Sandelowski and Barroso's approach for synthesising qualitative research
Despite the proliferation of differing methods for synthesising qualitative research, Sandelowski and Barroso's approach stands out because it is a stimulus to thinking and creativity. Yet, when applying the approach within our qualitative meta-summary and meta-synthesis project, we encountered some methodological challenges. Key aspects of the approach are outlined and juxtaposed with how we handled them in practical terms thereby entering into …
Preparedness to Identify and Care for Trafficked Persons in South Carolina Hospitals
This qualitative descriptive study utilized stratified purposive sampling to investigate how prepared hospitals throughout the state of South Carolina were to identify and care for individuals experiencing human trafficking. Hospitals were invited to participate if trafficking had been reported to the National Human Trafficking Hotline, in 2016, in their geographic location. Telephone interviews were conducted with Emergency Department (ED) direc…
From Qualitative Meta-Summary to Qualitative Meta-Synthesis
Situation-specific theories provide nurses with a vehicle to interpret situations, guide their decisions or make assumptions about factors influencing a health problem. In this article, we used meta-synthesis techniques to integrate statements of findings pertaining to barriers and facilitators to heart failure self-care that were derived previously through meta-summary techniques leading to a new situation-specific theory. According to our propo…
It’s Almost Like Gay Sex Doesn’t Exist”
Sex communication interventions facilitate positive sexual health outcomes with heterosexual adolescents. The same has yet to be established for male youth with same-sex attractions, behaviors, and identities. Our study describes the experiences of gay, bisexual and queer-identifying adolescent males with parent-child sex communication. We conducted 30 in-depth semi-structured interviews with a diverse group of 15 to 20 year-old gay, bisexual, an…
St Century Parent–Child Sex Communication in the United States
Parent-child sex communication results in the transmission of family expectations, societal values, and role modeling of sexual health risk-reduction strategies. Parent-child sex communication's potential to curb negative sexual health outcomes has sustained a multidisciplinary effort to better understand the process and its impact on the development of healthy sexual attitudes and behaviors among adolescents. This review advances what is known a…
Facilitators and Barriers to HIV Screening
Accomplishments in biomedical research and technology, combined with innovative community and clinically based interventions, have expanded HIV testing globally. However, HIV screening and receipt of results remains a challenge in some areas. To optimize the benefits of HIV screening, it is imperative that there is a better understanding of the barriers to and motivators of testing for HIV infection. This study is a meta-synthesis of the qualitat…
Feasibility of Using an iPod Touch Device and Acceptability of a Stigma Reduction Intervention with HIV-Infected Women in the Deep South
Improvements in Depression and Changes in Fatigue
Staff Interaction Strategies That Optimize Delivery of Transitional Care in a Skilled Nursing Facility
After hospitalization, more than 1.5 million older adults each year receive postacute care in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Transitional care services, designed to prepare older SNF patients (and their family caregivers) for their transitions from an SNF to home, have rarely been studied. Thus, we conducted a longitudinal, multiple case study of transitional care provided in an SNF to explore the care processes and staff interaction strategi…
Physiological and Psychosocial Factors that Predict HIV-Related Fatigue
Measuring fatigue in people living with HIV/Aids
In the era of life-prolonging antiretroviral therapy, chronic fatigue is one of the most prevalent and disabling symptoms of people living with HIV/AIDS, yet its measurement remains challenging. No instruments have been developed specifically to describe HIV-related fatigue. We assessed the reliability and construct validity of the HIV-Related Fatigue Scale (HRFS), a 56-item self-report instrument developed through formative qualitative research …
Trauma, stressful life events and depression predict HIV-related fatigue
Despite the fact that fatigue is a common and debilitating symptom among HIV-infected persons, we know little about the predictors of fatigue in this population. The goal of this cross-sectional study was to examine the effects of early childhood trauma, recent stressful life events and depression on intensity and impairment of fatigue in HIV, over and above demographic factors and clinical characteristics. We studied 128 HIV-infected men and wom…
Making Sense of Qualitative and Quantitative Findings in Mixed Research Synthesis Studies
The synthesis of qualitative and quantitative research findings is increasingly promoted, but many of the conceptual and methodological issues it raises have yet to be fully understood and resolved. In this article, we describe how we handled issues encountered in efforts to synthesize the findings in forty-two reports of studies of antiretroviral adherence in HIV-positive women in the course of an ongoing study to develop methods to synthesize q…
Using qualitative metasummary to synthesize qualitative and quantitative descriptive findings
The new imperative in the health disciplines to be more methodologically inclusive has generated a growing interest in mixed research synthesis, or the integration of qualitative and quantitative research findings. Qualitative metasummary is a quantitatively oriented aggregation of qualitative findings originally developed to accommodate the distinctive features of qualitative surveys. Yet these findings are similar in form and mode of production…
Comparability work and the management of difference in research synthesis studies
From Synthesis to Script
Although qualitative research synthesis has secured a place in the evidence-based practice movement, little effort has as yet been directed toward translating the results into material form for practice. The authors transformed a qualitative research synthesis of findings pertaining to stigma in HIV-positive women into a script and DVD. The process of transformation entailed bringing together the norms and imperatives of scientific research, clin…
Stigma in HIV‐Positive Women
Purpose: To present a metasynthesis of qualitative findings on stigma in HIV‐positive women. Method: Metasummary and metasynthesis techniques were used to integrate findings on stigma in 93 reports of qualitative studies conducted between 1991 and 2002 with a total of 1,780 women, mostly from minority groups. Findings: Both perceived and enacted stigma were pervasive in the lives of HIV‐positive women. HIV‐related stigma was intensified in women …
Changes in Neuropsychological Functioning with Progression of HIV-1 Infection
Classifying the Findings in Qualitative Studies
A key task in conducting research integration studies is determining what features to account for in the research reports eligible for inclusion. In the course of a methodological project, the authors found a remarkable uniformity in the way findings were produced and presented, no matter what the stated or implied frame of reference or method. They describe a typology of findings, which they developed to bypass the discrepancy between method cla…
Reading Qualitative Studies
In this article, the authors hope to shift the debate in the practice disciplines concerning quality in qualitative research from a preoccupation with epistemic criteria toward consideration of aesthetic and rhetorical concerns. They see epistemic criteria as inevitably including aesthetic and rhetorical concerns. The authors argue here for a reconceptualization of the research report as a literary technology that mediates between researcher/writ…
It’s Almost Like Gay Sex Doesn’t Exist”
Sex communication interventions facilitate positive sexual health outcomes with heterosexual adolescents. The same has yet to be established for male youth with same-sex attractions, behaviors, and identities. Our study describes the experiences of gay, bisexual and queer-identifying adolescent males with parent-child sex communication. We conducted 30 in-depth semi-structured interviews with a diverse group of 15 to 20 year-old gay, bisexual, an…
Metasynthesis of Qualitative Research on Living with HIV Infection
Qualitative studies of people living with HIV infection are crucial for providing direction for practice and research because they provide the emic perspective. As more of these qualitative studies are conducted, researchers are challenged to develop ways to synthesize the findings for research and clinical practice. The purpose of the metasynthesis described in this article was to understand the experience of adults living with HIV infection as …
Writing the Proposal for a Qualitative Research Methodology Project
Writing the proposal for a qualitative research methodology study is a double challenge because of the emergent nature of qualitative research design and because a methodology study entails describing a process to produce a process. How the authors addressed this challenge is shown in the annotated text of the grant proposal-'Analytic Techniques for Qualitative Metasynthesis'-funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research. Appealing qualita…
Reconstructing My Life
This naturalistic study reports the ways of becoming a long-term survivor of AIDS. Ethnographic interviewing techniques were used to interview a purposive sample of 14 men and 6 women who had AIDS for at least 3 years and who were living in the Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida, area. Part of a larger study on the phenomenon of surviving AIDS, the ways of becoming a long-term survivor are embedded within 5 dimensions that allowed participants to reco…
From Synthesis to Script
Although qualitative research synthesis has secured a place in the evidence-based practice movement, little effort has as yet been directed toward translating the results into material form for practice. The authors transformed a qualitative research synthesis of findings pertaining to stigma in HIV-positive women into a script and DVD. The process of transformation entailed bringing together the norms and imperatives of scientific research, clin…
Making Sense of Qualitative and Quantitative Findings in Mixed Research Synthesis Studies
The synthesis of qualitative and quantitative research findings is increasingly promoted, but many of the conceptual and methodological issues it raises have yet to be fully understood and resolved. In this article, we describe how we handled issues encountered in efforts to synthesize the findings in forty-two reports of studies of antiretroviral adherence in HIV-positive women in the course of an ongoing study to develop methods to synthesize q…
In the Field with the Beck Depression Inventory
Qualitative methods are typically and formally used only in the earliest phases of instrument development to generate items. Once these items are generated, instrument development usually then moves into the testing phases, where quantitative methods prevail. The achievement of psychometric credibility is presumed to depend largely on quantitative measures of reliability and validity. Or if qualitative methods are employed, their use is masked, u…
From Qualitative Meta-Summary to Qualitative Meta-Synthesis
Situation-specific theories provide nurses with a vehicle to interpret situations, guide their decisions or make assumptions about factors influencing a health problem. In this article, we used meta-synthesis techniques to integrate statements of findings pertaining to barriers and facilitators to heart failure self-care that were derived previously through meta-summary techniques leading to a new situation-specific theory. According to our propo…
Sample Reporting in Qualitative Studies of Women with HIV Infection
A key means by which readers judge the validity of both qualitative and quantitative research findings is to consider how well these findings are supported by the sample from which they were drawn. Yet as the authors discovered in the course of a systematic review of qualitative studies of women with HIV infection, relevant features of these samples are not always adequately reported or appropriately presented. Factors impeding the creation of a …
Preparedness to Identify and Care for Trafficked Persons in South Carolina Hospitals
This qualitative descriptive study utilized stratified purposive sampling to investigate how prepared hospitals throughout the state of South Carolina were to identify and care for individuals experiencing human trafficking. Hospitals were invited to participate if trafficking had been reported to the National Human Trafficking Hotline, in 2016, in their geographic location. Telephone interviews were conducted with Emergency Department (ED) direc…
Facilitators and Barriers to HIV Screening
Accomplishments in biomedical research and technology, combined with innovative community and clinically based interventions, have expanded HIV testing globally. However, HIV screening and receipt of results remains a challenge in some areas. To optimize the benefits of HIV screening, it is imperative that there is a better understanding of the barriers to and motivators of testing for HIV infection. This study is a meta-synthesis of the qualitat…
Comparability work and the management of difference in research synthesis studies
The Reproductive Health Priorities, Concerns, and Needs of Women in Midlife
Reproductive health research rarely involves the inclusion of women over 40, creating a large knowledge gap regarding women in midlife. Women continue to have reproductive health needs, concerns, and priorities up to the point of menopause that should be examined to improve reproductive health outcomes and provide individualized care. In-depth, individual, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 women between the ages of 40 and 55 who h…
Reconstructing My Life
This naturalistic study reports the ways of becoming a long-term survivor of AIDS. Ethnographic interviewing techniques were used to interview a purposive sample of 14 men and 6 women who had AIDS for at least 3 years and who were living in the Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida, area. Part of a larger study on the phenomenon of surviving AIDS, the ways of becoming a long-term survivor are embedded within 5 dimensions that allowed participants to reco…
Metasynthesis of Qualitative Research on Living with HIV Infection
Qualitative studies of people living with HIV infection are crucial for providing direction for practice and research because they provide the emic perspective. As more of these qualitative studies are conducted, researchers are challenged to develop ways to synthesize the findings for research and clinical practice. The purpose of the metasynthesis described in this article was to understand the experience of adults living with HIV infection as …
In the Field with the Beck Depression Inventory
Qualitative methods are typically and formally used only in the earliest phases of instrument development to generate items. Once these items are generated, instrument development usually then moves into the testing phases, where quantitative methods prevail. The achievement of psychometric credibility is presumed to depend largely on quantitative measures of reliability and validity. Or if qualitative methods are employed, their use is masked, u…
Progression to Aids, a clinical Aids condition and mortality
Background. The primary aim of this study is to examine prospectively the association of stressful life events, social support, depressive symptoms, anger, serum cortisol and lymphocyte subsets with changes in multiple measures of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease progression. Methods. Ninety-six HIV-infected gay men without symptoms or anti-retroviral medication use at baseline were studied every 6 months for up to 9 years. Disease prog…
Finding the Findings in Qualitative Studies
Purpose: To describe the challenges of finding the findings in qualitative studies. Method: Review of literature on representation in qualitative research and analysis of 99 reports of qualitative studies of women with HIV infection. Findings: Factors complicating finding the findings in qualitative studies include varied reporting styles, misrepresentation of data and analytic procedures as findings, misuse of quotes and theory, and lack of clar…
Reading Qualitative Studies
In this article, the authors hope to shift the debate in the practice disciplines concerning quality in qualitative research from a preoccupation with epistemic criteria toward consideration of aesthetic and rhetorical concerns. They see epistemic criteria as inevitably including aesthetic and rhetorical concerns. The authors argue here for a reconceptualization of the research report as a literary technology that mediates between researcher/writ…
Classifying the Findings in Qualitative Studies
A key task in conducting research integration studies is determining what features to account for in the research reports eligible for inclusion. In the course of a methodological project, the authors found a remarkable uniformity in the way findings were produced and presented, no matter what the stated or implied frame of reference or method. They describe a typology of findings, which they developed to bypass the discrepancy between method cla…
Writing the Proposal for a Qualitative Research Methodology Project
Writing the proposal for a qualitative research methodology study is a double challenge because of the emergent nature of qualitative research design and because a methodology study entails describing a process to produce a process. How the authors addressed this challenge is shown in the annotated text of the grant proposal-'Analytic Techniques for Qualitative Metasynthesis'-funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research. Appealing qualita…
Sample Reporting in Qualitative Studies of Women with HIV Infection
A key means by which readers judge the validity of both qualitative and quantitative research findings is to consider how well these findings are supported by the sample from which they were drawn. Yet as the authors discovered in the course of a systematic review of qualitative studies of women with HIV infection, relevant features of these samples are not always adequately reported or appropriately presented. Factors impeding the creation of a …
Stigma in HIV‐Positive Women
Purpose: To present a metasynthesis of qualitative findings on stigma in HIV‐positive women. Method: Metasummary and metasynthesis techniques were used to integrate findings on stigma in 93 reports of qualitative studies conducted between 1991 and 2002 with a total of 1,780 women, mostly from minority groups. Findings: Both perceived and enacted stigma were pervasive in the lives of HIV‐positive women. HIV‐related stigma was intensified in women …
Changes in Neuropsychological Functioning with Progression of HIV-1 Infection
From Synthesis to Script
Although qualitative research synthesis has secured a place in the evidence-based practice movement, little effort has as yet been directed toward translating the results into material form for practice. The authors transformed a qualitative research synthesis of findings pertaining to stigma in HIV-positive women into a script and DVD. The process of transformation entailed bringing together the norms and imperatives of scientific research, clin…
Using qualitative metasummary to synthesize qualitative and quantitative descriptive findings
The new imperative in the health disciplines to be more methodologically inclusive has generated a growing interest in mixed research synthesis, or the integration of qualitative and quantitative research findings. Qualitative metasummary is a quantitatively oriented aggregation of qualitative findings originally developed to accommodate the distinctive features of qualitative surveys. Yet these findings are similar in form and mode of production…
Comparability work and the management of difference in research synthesis studies
Measuring fatigue in people living with HIV/Aids
In the era of life-prolonging antiretroviral therapy, chronic fatigue is one of the most prevalent and disabling symptoms of people living with HIV/AIDS, yet its measurement remains challenging. No instruments have been developed specifically to describe HIV-related fatigue. We assessed the reliability and construct validity of the HIV-Related Fatigue Scale (HRFS), a 56-item self-report instrument developed through formative qualitative research …
Trauma, stressful life events and depression predict HIV-related fatigue
Despite the fact that fatigue is a common and debilitating symptom among HIV-infected persons, we know little about the predictors of fatigue in this population. The goal of this cross-sectional study was to examine the effects of early childhood trauma, recent stressful life events and depression on intensity and impairment of fatigue in HIV, over and above demographic factors and clinical characteristics. We studied 128 HIV-infected men and wom…
Making Sense of Qualitative and Quantitative Findings in Mixed Research Synthesis Studies
The synthesis of qualitative and quantitative research findings is increasingly promoted, but many of the conceptual and methodological issues it raises have yet to be fully understood and resolved. In this article, we describe how we handled issues encountered in efforts to synthesize the findings in forty-two reports of studies of antiretroviral adherence in HIV-positive women in the course of an ongoing study to develop methods to synthesize q…
Physiological and Psychosocial Factors that Predict HIV-Related Fatigue
Staff Interaction Strategies That Optimize Delivery of Transitional Care in a Skilled Nursing Facility
After hospitalization, more than 1.5 million older adults each year receive postacute care in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Transitional care services, designed to prepare older SNF patients (and their family caregivers) for their transitions from an SNF to home, have rarely been studied. Thus, we conducted a longitudinal, multiple case study of transitional care provided in an SNF to explore the care processes and staff interaction strategi…
Feasibility of Using an iPod Touch Device and Acceptability of a Stigma Reduction Intervention with HIV-Infected Women in the Deep South
Improvements in Depression and Changes in Fatigue
Facilitators and Barriers to HIV Screening
Accomplishments in biomedical research and technology, combined with innovative community and clinically based interventions, have expanded HIV testing globally. However, HIV screening and receipt of results remains a challenge in some areas. To optimize the benefits of HIV screening, it is imperative that there is a better understanding of the barriers to and motivators of testing for HIV infection. This study is a meta-synthesis of the qualitat…
St Century Parent–Child Sex Communication in the United States
Parent-child sex communication results in the transmission of family expectations, societal values, and role modeling of sexual health risk-reduction strategies. Parent-child sex communication's potential to curb negative sexual health outcomes has sustained a multidisciplinary effort to better understand the process and its impact on the development of healthy sexual attitudes and behaviors among adolescents. This review advances what is known a…
It’s Almost Like Gay Sex Doesn’t Exist”
Sex communication interventions facilitate positive sexual health outcomes with heterosexual adolescents. The same has yet to be established for male youth with same-sex attractions, behaviors, and identities. Our study describes the experiences of gay, bisexual and queer-identifying adolescent males with parent-child sex communication. We conducted 30 in-depth semi-structured interviews with a diverse group of 15 to 20 year-old gay, bisexual, an…
From Qualitative Meta-Summary to Qualitative Meta-Synthesis
Situation-specific theories provide nurses with a vehicle to interpret situations, guide their decisions or make assumptions about factors influencing a health problem. In this article, we used meta-synthesis techniques to integrate statements of findings pertaining to barriers and facilitators to heart failure self-care that were derived previously through meta-summary techniques leading to a new situation-specific theory. According to our propo…
Medicine (27 works) · Psychology (27 works) · Qualitative research (23 works) · Sociology (18 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (15 works) · Nursing (14 works) · Family medicine (12 works) · Social science (12 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works)