Helen-Maria Lekas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 130670 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Helen-Maria Lekas |
| NOMBRES | Helen-Maria |
| APELLIDO | Lekas |
| FIRMA | LEKAS H |
| AFILIACIONES | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3582-9372 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Perspectives on Social Anxiety and Barriers to School‐Based Mental Health Services Among Black American Adolescents
Few studies have examined social anxiety in Black American adolescents, despite the role of unique sociocultural factors and lower rates of mental health service use in this population. The goal of this qualitative study was to examine the perceptions and experience of social anxiety, as well as attitudes toward help‐seeking and school‐based mental health services, in Black American adolescents. Focus groups and individual interviews were conduct…
Exploring HIV provider framings of living and aging with HIV
Anti-Asian Attitudes in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Single Room Occupancy Residence
Housing Instability, Structural Vulnerability, and Non-Fatal Opioid Overdoses Among People Who Use Heroin in Washington Heights, New York City
Nationally, opioid overdose remains strikingly persistent among people experiencing homelessness and housing instability. Limited information is available about the characteristics of this phenomenon in economically disadvantaged communities of color. This study sought to evaluate the association between key contextual factors and experiencing a non-fatal opioid overdose among people who use heroin in Washington Heights, New York City. We conduct…
Pharmacy PEP Access Intervention Among Persons Who Use Drugs in New York City
Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Black and Puerto Rican Women in Their Late Thirties
HIV-related ‘conspiracy beliefs’
HIV-related 'conspiracy beliefs' include ideas about the genocidal origin of HIV and the nature and purpose of HIV-related medications. These ideas have been widely documented as affecting myriad health behaviours and outcomes, including birth control use and HIV testing. Most HIV-related research has quantitatively explored this phenomenon, and further qualitative research is necessary to better understand the complexity of these beliefs as arti…
The experience and management of HIV stigma among HIV-negative adults in heterosexual serodiscordant relationships in New York City
Despite treatment advances that have improved the health and life expectancy of HIV-positive people and contribute to the prevention of HIV transmission, HIV stigma is still frequently experienced by HIV-infected individuals and those close to them. This study investigated the types of HIV-related stigma experienced by HIV-negative adults in serodiscordant heterosexual relationships when their partner's HIV-positive status was revealed to family …
Reproductive Desires and Considerations of HIV-Positive Men in Heterosexual Relationships in New York City
The role of patient-provider interactions
Challenges Facing Providers Caring for HIV/HCV-Coinfected Patients
Despite the high prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among injection drug users also infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and the synergistic adverse effect of the two diseases on patients' health and survival, research on the clinical management of these patients and particularly the low uptake of HCV therapy is limited. We conducted qualitative interviews with 17 HIV providers from two urban public hospitals. We discove…
Felt and Enacted Stigma Among HIV/HCV-Coinfected Adults
The realization that many persons with HIV/AIDS are subjected to multiple layers of stigmatization because they belong to socially deviant and disenfranchised groups (e.g., injection drug users, racial/ethnic and sexual minorities) accounts for an increasing interest in the phenomenon of stigma layering. The stigma associated with hepatitis C virus (HCV) has also been conceptualized as layered. However, researchers have overlooked the fact that H…
Sexual Behaviors of Non-gay Identified Non-disclosing Men Who Have Sex with Men and Women
Diminished Sexual Activity, Interest, and Feelings of Attractiveness Among HIV-Infected Women in Two Eras of the Aids Epidemic
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Experiences of Felt and Enacted Stigma Among Women With HIV/Aids
In the post-1996 era, the effectiveness of antiviral therapies (such as highly active antiretroviral therapy [HAART]), which transformed HIV/AIDS into a more manageable disease, raised expectations that the disease's stigma would decrease. The authors compared focused-interview data from a pre-HAART (1994 to 1996) and a HAART-era (2000 to 2003) sample of African American, Puerto Rican, and White women living with HIV/AIDS to identify changes in s…
Pathways to HIV testing among adults aged fifty and older with HIV/Aids
Older adults (age 50 +) are less likely to be tested for HIV and are diagnosed at a later disease stage than younger individuals. To examine the barriers and facilitating factors to testing in this age group, interview data from 35 older men and women who tested HIV positive at age 50 or older were analysed. Participants described a variety of pathways to testing, related to gender, sexual orientation, drug use, and era of the epidemic. Older gay…
Changes in Attitudes Toward Antiviral Medication
Felt and Enacted Stigma Among HIV/HCV-Coinfected Adults
The realization that many persons with HIV/AIDS are subjected to multiple layers of stigmatization because they belong to socially deviant and disenfranchised groups (e.g., injection drug users, racial/ethnic and sexual minorities) accounts for an increasing interest in the phenomenon of stigma layering. The stigma associated with hepatitis C virus (HCV) has also been conceptualized as layered. However, researchers have overlooked the fact that H…
Sexual Behaviors of Non-gay Identified Non-disclosing Men Who Have Sex with Men and Women
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Experiences of Felt and Enacted Stigma Among Women With HIV/Aids
In the post-1996 era, the effectiveness of antiviral therapies (such as highly active antiretroviral therapy [HAART]), which transformed HIV/AIDS into a more manageable disease, raised expectations that the disease's stigma would decrease. The authors compared focused-interview data from a pre-HAART (1994 to 1996) and a HAART-era (2000 to 2003) sample of African American, Puerto Rican, and White women living with HIV/AIDS to identify changes in s…
Diminished Sexual Activity, Interest, and Feelings of Attractiveness Among HIV-Infected Women in Two Eras of the Aids Epidemic
The role of patient-provider interactions
Pathways to HIV testing among adults aged fifty and older with HIV/Aids
Older adults (age 50 +) are less likely to be tested for HIV and are diagnosed at a later disease stage than younger individuals. To examine the barriers and facilitating factors to testing in this age group, interview data from 35 older men and women who tested HIV positive at age 50 or older were analysed. Participants described a variety of pathways to testing, related to gender, sexual orientation, drug use, and era of the epidemic. Older gay…
Changes in Attitudes Toward Antiviral Medication
Diminished Sexual Activity, Interest, and Feelings of Attractiveness Among HIV-Infected Women in Two Eras of the Aids Epidemic
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Experiences of Felt and Enacted Stigma Among Women With HIV/Aids
In the post-1996 era, the effectiveness of antiviral therapies (such as highly active antiretroviral therapy [HAART]), which transformed HIV/AIDS into a more manageable disease, raised expectations that the disease's stigma would decrease. The authors compared focused-interview data from a pre-HAART (1994 to 1996) and a HAART-era (2000 to 2003) sample of African American, Puerto Rican, and White women living with HIV/AIDS to identify changes in s…
Sexual Behaviors of Non-gay Identified Non-disclosing Men Who Have Sex with Men and Women
Felt and Enacted Stigma Among HIV/HCV-Coinfected Adults
The realization that many persons with HIV/AIDS are subjected to multiple layers of stigmatization because they belong to socially deviant and disenfranchised groups (e.g., injection drug users, racial/ethnic and sexual minorities) accounts for an increasing interest in the phenomenon of stigma layering. The stigma associated with hepatitis C virus (HCV) has also been conceptualized as layered. However, researchers have overlooked the fact that H…
Challenges Facing Providers Caring for HIV/HCV-Coinfected Patients
Despite the high prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among injection drug users also infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and the synergistic adverse effect of the two diseases on patients' health and survival, research on the clinical management of these patients and particularly the low uptake of HCV therapy is limited. We conducted qualitative interviews with 17 HIV providers from two urban public hospitals. We discove…
The role of patient-provider interactions
Reproductive Desires and Considerations of HIV-Positive Men in Heterosexual Relationships in New York City
The experience and management of HIV stigma among HIV-negative adults in heterosexual serodiscordant relationships in New York City
Despite treatment advances that have improved the health and life expectancy of HIV-positive people and contribute to the prevention of HIV transmission, HIV stigma is still frequently experienced by HIV-infected individuals and those close to them. This study investigated the types of HIV-related stigma experienced by HIV-negative adults in serodiscordant heterosexual relationships when their partner's HIV-positive status was revealed to family …
Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Black and Puerto Rican Women in Their Late Thirties
HIV-related ‘conspiracy beliefs’
HIV-related 'conspiracy beliefs' include ideas about the genocidal origin of HIV and the nature and purpose of HIV-related medications. These ideas have been widely documented as affecting myriad health behaviours and outcomes, including birth control use and HIV testing. Most HIV-related research has quantitatively explored this phenomenon, and further qualitative research is necessary to better understand the complexity of these beliefs as arti…
Pharmacy PEP Access Intervention Among Persons Who Use Drugs in New York City
Single Room Occupancy Residence
Housing Instability, Structural Vulnerability, and Non-Fatal Opioid Overdoses Among People Who Use Heroin in Washington Heights, New York City
Nationally, opioid overdose remains strikingly persistent among people experiencing homelessness and housing instability. Limited information is available about the characteristics of this phenomenon in economically disadvantaged communities of color. This study sought to evaluate the association between key contextual factors and experiencing a non-fatal opioid overdose among people who use heroin in Washington Heights, New York City. We conduct…
Anti-Asian Attitudes in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Perspectives on Social Anxiety and Barriers to School‐Based Mental Health Services Among Black American Adolescents
Few studies have examined social anxiety in Black American adolescents, despite the role of unique sociocultural factors and lower rates of mental health service use in this population. The goal of this qualitative study was to examine the perceptions and experience of social anxiety, as well as attitudes toward help‐seeking and school‐based mental health services, in Black American adolescents. Focus groups and individual interviews were conduct…
Exploring HIV provider framings of living and aging with HIV
Medicine (17 obras) · Psychology (13 obras) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (11 obras) · Family medicine (10 obras) · Psychiatry (10 obras) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (9 obras) · Nursing (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Clinical Psychology (6 obras) · Public health (6 obras)