Lorece V Edwards

Biographic Data

ID3792243
NAMELorece V Edwards
GIVEN NAMESLorece V
FAMILY NAMEEdwards
SIGNATUREEDWARDS L V
AFFILIATIONSMorgan State University
ORCID0000-0003-3713-7425
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Parents' Perceptions of Schools' Covid ‐19 Mitigation Strategies: A Phenomenological Study

    Open AccessJanny Dinh, Lorece V Edwards et al.ARTICLEJournal of School Health2024

    BACKGROUND: At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools closed across the United States. Given the impact of virtual learning and lost access to school resources, schools eventually reopened with COVID-19 mitigation protocols in place. This qualitative study sought to understand parental perceptions of school-based COVID-19 mitigation strategies. METHODS: Using a phenomenology approach, nine focus groups were completed with 40 parents of child…

  • Development of a community-informed communication toolkit to prevent spread of viral illness in schools, including Sars-COV-2

    Open AccessAugust Summers, Gabriela V Calderon et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Introduction: Schools were uniquely impacted during the COVID-19 (SARS-COV-2) pandemic. We sought to elucidate how parents/guardians of elementary and middle school students in Maryland navigated the return to in-person school following remote instruction. We also sought to understand how they perceived communication about school-based COVID-19 mitigation strategies and their preferences for the content and format of public health communication a…

  • Identifying and preventing fraudulent responses in online public health surveys: Lessons learned during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessJune Wang, Gabriela Calderon et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Web-based survey data collection has become increasingly popular, and limitations on in-person data collection during the COVID-19 pandemic have fueled this growth. However, the anonymity of the online environment increases the risk of fraudulent responses provided by bots or those who complete surveys to receive incentives, a major risk to data integrity. As part of a study of COVID-19 and the return to in-person school, we implemented a web-bas…

  • Similarities and Differences Matter: Considering the Influence of Gender on HIV Prevention Programs for Young Adults in an Urban HBCU

    Open AccessIan Lindong, Lorece V Edwards et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2017

    Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) disproportionately burdens African American youth and young adults. In studies conducted in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) settings, African American youth generally perceive themselves as having a low risk of contracting HIV and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) despite having higher rates of unprotected sexual encounters, multiple sex partners, a…

  • Till Death Do Us Part: Lived Experiences of HIV-Positive Married African American Women

    Open AccessLorece V Edwards, Lorece Edwards et al.ARTICLEQualitative Report2014References: 8

    HIV/AIDS disease continues to be an escalating health problem, particularly among women. However, African American women are among the leading demographic groups for HIV prevalence in the United States. The typical woman with HIV/AIDS is young, in her late twenties, economically challenged, and of childbearing age. Participants were recruited from an HIV/AIDS outpatient clinic to explore their perceptions of social support, life experiences and m…

  • Am I My Mother’s Keeper? Children as Unexpected Sources of Social Support Among African American Women Living With HIV-Aids

    Open AccessLorece V Edwards, Shalon M Irving et al.ARTICLEJournal of Black Studies2012

    HIV-AIDS continues to be an escalating health problem, particularly among women. In the United States, African American women are among the leading demographic groups for HIV prevalence. African American women represent 65% of the total women living with HIV-AIDS. The typical woman with HIV-AIDS is young, in her 20s, economically challenged, and of childbearing age. Adherence to HIV therapies is critical if patients are to achieve and maintain vi…

  • Managing identity impacts associated with disclosure of HIV status: A qualitative investigation

    Victoria Frye, Princess Fortin et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2009

    Disclosure of HIV status to potential and current sex partners by HIV-positive people (HIVPP) is a complex issue that has received a significant amount of attention. Research has found that disclosure depends upon the evaluation by HIVPP of potential benefits and risks, especially of the risks stemming from the profound social stigma of HIV and AIDS. Drawing on concepts from Goffman's classic stigma theory and Anderson's more recently developed c…

  • Perceived Social Support and HIV/Aids Medication Adherence Among African American Women

    Open AccessLorece V EdwardsARTICLEQualitative Health Research2006Cited by: 10References: 27

    HIV/AIDS incidence is increasing more quickly among women than any other segment of the population. The typical woman with HIV/AIDS is young, in her late 20s, economically challenged, and of childbearing age. Adherence to HIV therapies is critical if patients are to achieve and maintain virologic suppression. The author recruited HIV/AIDS-infected African American women from an outpatient clinic to investigate the women's perceptions of social su…