Peter Messeri
Biographic Data
| ID | 261912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Messeri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Messeri |
| SIGNATURE | MESSERI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5570-760X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 144 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Impact of National Smoking Prevention Campaigns on Tobacco-Related Beliefs, Intentions to Smoke and Smoking Initiation
The national truth campaign has exposed U.S. youth to antismoking messages since 2000. Tobacco industry-sponsored campaigns, such as "Think. Don't Smoke" (TDS), have also aired nationally. We examine the effects of recall of the truth and TDS campaigns on changes in tobacco-related beliefs, intentions, and smoking initiation in a longitudinal survey of U.S. youth. Recall of truth(R) was associated with increased agreement with antismoking beliefs…
Check Out That Body
Housing Need, Housing Assistance, and Connection to HIV Medical Care
Social Support, Disclosure, and Use of Antiretroviral Therapy
HIV-Positive Men Sexually Active with Women
How state counter-industry campaigns help prime perceptions of tobacco industry practices to promote reductions in youth smoking
Results highlight the value of continued state counter-industry campaigns
Evidence of a Dose—Response Relationship Between “truth” Antismoking Ads and Youth Smoking Prevalence
Objectives. In early 2000, the American Legacy Foundation launched the national “truth” campaign, the first national antismoking campaign to discourage tobacco use among youths. We studied the impact of the campaign on national smoking rates among US youths (students in grades 8, 10, and 12). Methods. We used data from the Monitoring the Future survey in a pre/post quasi-experimental design to relate trends in youth smoking prevalence to varied d…
A Community-Based Intervention Designed to Increase Preventive Health Care Seeking Among Adolescents
Objectives. We evaluated the effectiveness of an intervention designed to increase preventive health care seeking among adolescents. Methods. Adolescents and young adults aged 12 to 21 years, recruited from community-based organizations in 2 different communities, were randomized into either a 3-session intervention or a control condition. We estimated outcomes from 3-month follow-up data using logistic and ordinary least squares regression. Resu…
Computer Access and Internet Use Among Urban Youths
This report presents data on computer access, Internet use, and factors associated with health information seeking on the Internet among a sample of youths aged 15 to 30 years in New York City. Findings from street intercept surveys indicate substantial computer access at home (62%) and frequent (everyday or a few times a week) Internet use (66%). Fifty-five percent of the sample reported seeking health information on the Internet, which was asso…
Antiretroviral Therapy and Declining Aids Mortality in New York City
OBJECTIVE: This study estimates the impact of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) and other antiretroviral therapy combinations on reducing mortality risk for a cohort of HIV-infected persons living in New York City. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Data for this study come from the CHAIN project, an ongoing multiwave longitudinal study of HIV-infected persons is living in New York City (n = 700) initiated in 1994. The study sample is drawn from t…
The impact of ancillary HIV services on engagement in medical care in New York City
The advent of antiretroviral therapies in 1996 prompted an interest in the role played by ancillary services in improving access to and retention in medical care, particularly since the success of the new therapies is often contingent upon ongoing and appropriate primary medical care. Using self-reported survey data from a longitudinal representative sample of 577 HIV-positive adults in New York City, this paper explores the impact of such suppor…
Getting to the Truth
Objectives. This study examines how the American Legacy Foundation's “truth” campaign and Philip Morris's “Think. Don't Smoke” campaign have influenced youths' attitudes, beliefs, and intentions toward tobacco. Methods. We analyzed 2 telephone surveys of 12- to 17-year-olds with multivariate logistic regressions: a baseline survey conducted before the launch of “truth” and a second survey 10 months into the “truth” campaign. Results. Exposure to …
Effects of ZDV-based patient education on intentions toward ZDV use, HIV testing and reproduction among a US cohort of women
This study examined the immediate effects of exposure to a patient education brochure concerning the risks and benefits of zidovudine (ZDV) therapy during pregnancy to reduce perinatal HIV transmission (protocol ACTG 076) on related knowledge, behavioural intentions and attitudes of women with and at-risk for HIV-infection. Self-reports were collected from 653 women of childbearing age from community family planning clinics and hospital-based HIV…
Safer sex strategies for women
Choosing Optimal Support Groups
There is considerable empirical research on the division of supportive and caregiving services among different network members. Yet the principles that govern the configuration of social support networks are still not well understood. Cantor's (1979) and Shanas' (1979) hierarchical-compensatory model and Litwak's (1985) task-specific model are among the more prominent formulations for explaining the choice of support groups. We propose that the f…
Drug use and stress
Opposing functions have been attributed to substance use — as causal of distress and as buffering agent to reduce distress. These opposing roles were modeled with longitudinal data from an urban community sample of African Americans. With enduring unemployment formulated as the predictor stressor, three levels of drug use were tested for direct versus multiplicative effects on strain. Findings did not support the buffering or stress-relief hypoth…
A life span perspective on drug use and affective distress in an african-american sample
Data from the second and third waves of an ongoing study of inner-city African Americans (N = 411) were used to assess the relationship between substance use and affective distress. Involvement with eight substances was examined individually and collectively over a 7-year interval, during which time the study cohort moved from ages 18 to 23 years to 26 to 31 years. Regression analysis indicated that substance use was associated directly with dele…
The Role of Formal and Informal Groups in Providing Help to Older People
No abstract available for this article
Organizational Theory, Social Supports, and Mortality Rates
Theorists and researchers have explicitly or implicitly made use of primary groups to explain a wide range of social behaviors such as work productivity mass media communication combat morale job search services to elderly and mortality rates. Typically they have not systematically distinguished primary group from formal organization effects. Consequently it is not known what primary groups uniquely contribute to social behavior. An expanded orga…
Age Differences in the Reception of New Scientific Theories
Some studies seem to indicate that age may not be nearly so powerful a factor in structuring scientific disputes as has long been supposed. This paper views the weak and apparently inconsistent empirical associations reported in earlier studies as arising from incomplete analysis of the relationship between age and receptivity to new scientific theories. Explanations as to why age and receptivity might co-vary have focused on motivational factors…
Drugs, lifestyle, and health
The association of drug use with indicators of health status was studied in a representative sample of urban Black youth interviewed first in adolescence and then six to seven later in young adulthood. Seven substances, with interaction terms as appropriate, were tested against a psychophysical health scale and also against a more inclusive general health scale. Both measures of health outcomes yielded similar findings. Earlier inhalants use and,…
The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences. Richard Whitley
Drug Use Initiation among Urban Black Youth
Origins of Cigarette Smoking in Academic Achievement, Stress and Social Expectations
This research is based on a panel study of urban black adolescents (N = 536) with six to eight years intervening between measuring the predictors and measuring subsequent smoking initiation. Prior research with white and largely school-drawn samples has demonstrated that poor school achievement has a significant influence on smoking initiation. The same relationship held in this black youth sample, with a stronger effect noted for females than fo…
Chemistry Transformed
Organizational Theory, Social Supports, and Mortality Rates
Theorists and researchers have explicitly or implicitly made use of primary groups to explain a wide range of social behaviors such as work productivity mass media communication combat morale job search services to elderly and mortality rates. Typically they have not systematically distinguished primary group from formal organization effects. Consequently it is not known what primary groups uniquely contribute to social behavior. An expanded orga…
Getting to the Truth
Objectives. This study examines how the American Legacy Foundation's “truth” campaign and Philip Morris's “Think. Don't Smoke” campaign have influenced youths' attitudes, beliefs, and intentions toward tobacco. Methods. We analyzed 2 telephone surveys of 12- to 17-year-olds with multivariate logistic regressions: a baseline survey conducted before the launch of “truth” and a second survey 10 months into the “truth” campaign. Results. Exposure to …
Evidence of a Dose—Response Relationship Between “truth” Antismoking Ads and Youth Smoking Prevalence
Objectives. In early 2000, the American Legacy Foundation launched the national “truth” campaign, the first national antismoking campaign to discourage tobacco use among youths. We studied the impact of the campaign on national smoking rates among US youths (students in grades 8, 10, and 12). Methods. We used data from the Monitoring the Future survey in a pre/post quasi-experimental design to relate trends in youth smoking prevalence to varied d…
The Role of Formal and Informal Groups in Providing Help to Older People
No abstract available for this article
HIV-Positive Men Sexually Active with Women
Drugs, lifestyle, and health
The association of drug use with indicators of health status was studied in a representative sample of urban Black youth interviewed first in adolescence and then six to seven later in young adulthood. Seven substances, with interaction terms as appropriate, were tested against a psychophysical health scale and also against a more inclusive general health scale. Both measures of health outcomes yielded similar findings. Earlier inhalants use and,…
Drug Use Initiation among Urban Black Youth
Safer sex strategies for women
A Community-Based Intervention Designed to Increase Preventive Health Care Seeking Among Adolescents
Objectives. We evaluated the effectiveness of an intervention designed to increase preventive health care seeking among adolescents. Methods. Adolescents and young adults aged 12 to 21 years, recruited from community-based organizations in 2 different communities, were randomized into either a 3-session intervention or a control condition. We estimated outcomes from 3-month follow-up data using logistic and ordinary least squares regression. Resu…
Age Differences in the Reception of New Scientific Theories
Some studies seem to indicate that age may not be nearly so powerful a factor in structuring scientific disputes as has long been supposed. This paper views the weak and apparently inconsistent empirical associations reported in earlier studies as arising from incomplete analysis of the relationship between age and receptivity to new scientific theories. Explanations as to why age and receptivity might co-vary have focused on motivational factors…
Computer Access and Internet Use Among Urban Youths
This report presents data on computer access, Internet use, and factors associated with health information seeking on the Internet among a sample of youths aged 15 to 30 years in New York City. Findings from street intercept surveys indicate substantial computer access at home (62%) and frequent (everyday or a few times a week) Internet use (66%). Fifty-five percent of the sample reported seeking health information on the Internet, which was asso…
Origins of Cigarette Smoking in Academic Achievement, Stress and Social Expectations
This research is based on a panel study of urban black adolescents (N = 536) with six to eight years intervening between measuring the predictors and measuring subsequent smoking initiation. Prior research with white and largely school-drawn samples has demonstrated that poor school achievement has a significant influence on smoking initiation. The same relationship held in this black youth sample, with a stronger effect noted for females than fo…
Chemistry Transformed
Origins of Cigarette Smoking in Academic Achievement, Stress and Social Expectations
This research is based on a panel study of urban black adolescents (N = 536) with six to eight years intervening between measuring the predictors and measuring subsequent smoking initiation. Prior research with white and largely school-drawn samples has demonstrated that poor school achievement has a significant influence on smoking initiation. The same relationship held in this black youth sample, with a stronger effect noted for females than fo…
Drug Use Initiation among Urban Black Youth
Drugs, lifestyle, and health
The association of drug use with indicators of health status was studied in a representative sample of urban Black youth interviewed first in adolescence and then six to seven later in young adulthood. Seven substances, with interaction terms as appropriate, were tested against a psychophysical health scale and also against a more inclusive general health scale. Both measures of health outcomes yielded similar findings. Earlier inhalants use and,…
The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences. Richard Whitley
Age Differences in the Reception of New Scientific Theories
Some studies seem to indicate that age may not be nearly so powerful a factor in structuring scientific disputes as has long been supposed. This paper views the weak and apparently inconsistent empirical associations reported in earlier studies as arising from incomplete analysis of the relationship between age and receptivity to new scientific theories. Explanations as to why age and receptivity might co-vary have focused on motivational factors…
Organizational Theory, Social Supports, and Mortality Rates
Theorists and researchers have explicitly or implicitly made use of primary groups to explain a wide range of social behaviors such as work productivity mass media communication combat morale job search services to elderly and mortality rates. Typically they have not systematically distinguished primary group from formal organization effects. Consequently it is not known what primary groups uniquely contribute to social behavior. An expanded orga…
The Role of Formal and Informal Groups in Providing Help to Older People
No abstract available for this article
A life span perspective on drug use and affective distress in an african-american sample
Data from the second and third waves of an ongoing study of inner-city African Americans (N = 411) were used to assess the relationship between substance use and affective distress. Involvement with eight substances was examined individually and collectively over a 7-year interval, during which time the study cohort moved from ages 18 to 23 years to 26 to 31 years. Regression analysis indicated that substance use was associated directly with dele…
Drug use and stress
Opposing functions have been attributed to substance use — as causal of distress and as buffering agent to reduce distress. These opposing roles were modeled with longitudinal data from an urban community sample of African Americans. With enduring unemployment formulated as the predictor stressor, three levels of drug use were tested for direct versus multiplicative effects on strain. Findings did not support the buffering or stress-relief hypoth…
Choosing Optimal Support Groups
There is considerable empirical research on the division of supportive and caregiving services among different network members. Yet the principles that govern the configuration of social support networks are still not well understood. Cantor's (1979) and Shanas' (1979) hierarchical-compensatory model and Litwak's (1985) task-specific model are among the more prominent formulations for explaining the choice of support groups. We propose that the f…
Effects of ZDV-based patient education on intentions toward ZDV use, HIV testing and reproduction among a US cohort of women
This study examined the immediate effects of exposure to a patient education brochure concerning the risks and benefits of zidovudine (ZDV) therapy during pregnancy to reduce perinatal HIV transmission (protocol ACTG 076) on related knowledge, behavioural intentions and attitudes of women with and at-risk for HIV-infection. Self-reports were collected from 653 women of childbearing age from community family planning clinics and hospital-based HIV…
Safer sex strategies for women
The impact of ancillary HIV services on engagement in medical care in New York City
The advent of antiretroviral therapies in 1996 prompted an interest in the role played by ancillary services in improving access to and retention in medical care, particularly since the success of the new therapies is often contingent upon ongoing and appropriate primary medical care. Using self-reported survey data from a longitudinal representative sample of 577 HIV-positive adults in New York City, this paper explores the impact of such suppor…
Getting to the Truth
Objectives. This study examines how the American Legacy Foundation's “truth” campaign and Philip Morris's “Think. Don't Smoke” campaign have influenced youths' attitudes, beliefs, and intentions toward tobacco. Methods. We analyzed 2 telephone surveys of 12- to 17-year-olds with multivariate logistic regressions: a baseline survey conducted before the launch of “truth” and a second survey 10 months into the “truth” campaign. Results. Exposure to …
Antiretroviral Therapy and Declining Aids Mortality in New York City
OBJECTIVE: This study estimates the impact of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) and other antiretroviral therapy combinations on reducing mortality risk for a cohort of HIV-infected persons living in New York City. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Data for this study come from the CHAIN project, an ongoing multiwave longitudinal study of HIV-infected persons is living in New York City (n = 700) initiated in 1994. The study sample is drawn from t…
Computer Access and Internet Use Among Urban Youths
This report presents data on computer access, Internet use, and factors associated with health information seeking on the Internet among a sample of youths aged 15 to 30 years in New York City. Findings from street intercept surveys indicate substantial computer access at home (62%) and frequent (everyday or a few times a week) Internet use (66%). Fifty-five percent of the sample reported seeking health information on the Internet, which was asso…
How state counter-industry campaigns help prime perceptions of tobacco industry practices to promote reductions in youth smoking
Results highlight the value of continued state counter-industry campaigns
Evidence of a Dose—Response Relationship Between “truth” Antismoking Ads and Youth Smoking Prevalence
Objectives. In early 2000, the American Legacy Foundation launched the national “truth” campaign, the first national antismoking campaign to discourage tobacco use among youths. We studied the impact of the campaign on national smoking rates among US youths (students in grades 8, 10, and 12). Methods. We used data from the Monitoring the Future survey in a pre/post quasi-experimental design to relate trends in youth smoking prevalence to varied d…
A Community-Based Intervention Designed to Increase Preventive Health Care Seeking Among Adolescents
Objectives. We evaluated the effectiveness of an intervention designed to increase preventive health care seeking among adolescents. Methods. Adolescents and young adults aged 12 to 21 years, recruited from community-based organizations in 2 different communities, were randomized into either a 3-session intervention or a control condition. We estimated outcomes from 3-month follow-up data using logistic and ordinary least squares regression. Resu…
Social Support, Disclosure, and Use of Antiretroviral Therapy
HIV-Positive Men Sexually Active with Women
Housing Need, Housing Assistance, and Connection to HIV Medical Care
Check Out That Body
The Impact of National Smoking Prevention Campaigns on Tobacco-Related Beliefs, Intentions to Smoke and Smoking Initiation
The national truth campaign has exposed U.S. youth to antismoking messages since 2000. Tobacco industry-sponsored campaigns, such as "Think. Don't Smoke" (TDS), have also aired nationally. We examine the effects of recall of the truth and TDS campaigns on changes in tobacco-related beliefs, intentions, and smoking initiation in a longitudinal survey of U.S. youth. Recall of truth(R) was associated with increased agreement with antismoking beliefs…
Medicine (18 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Environmental health (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · Family medicine (8 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Public health (8 works) · Gerontology (7 works) · Gerontology (6 works)