Angelita Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3886766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angelita Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angelita |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Engagement of Parents in an Evidence-Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for Native American Adolescents
Results suggest the following: (1) sexual health program designers should focus more on engaging male caregivers as well as adults with male youth in programming and (2) engaging parents in programs is a promising approach for cultivating and sustaining healthy behaviors among Native adolescents
Predictors of STD Screening From the Indigenist Stress-Coping Model Among Native Adults With Binge Substance Use
Objective: The American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) population in the U.S. is thriving in spite of settler colonialist efforts of erasure. AI/AN people, however, continue to experience persistent health disparities including a disproportionate burden of substance use and sexually transmitted diseases/infections (STDs/STIs), as well as a disproportionate lack of public health STD screening services and STD prevention interventions grounded in AI/…
Empowering our people: Predictors of retention in an STI risk reduction program among rural Native Americans with binge substance use
Purpose Substance use and sexual risk‐taking have been shown to co‐occur. Programs focused on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) reduction may benefit substance‐using, particularly binge substance‐using, adults. This is especially true for rural Native American communities who endure sexual and substance use disparities and have few STI risk reduction programs. This study explores factors predicting retention in an STI risk reduction program …
Empowering Our People: Syndemic Moderators and Effects of a Culturally Adapted, Evidence-Based Intervention for Sexual Risk Reduction among Native Americans with Binge Substance Use
Native American (NA) communities are disproportionately affected by the intersecting, synergistic epidemics of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and substance use. Targeted approaches to addressing these syndemics are critical given the relative scarcity of mental health and behavioral specialists in NA communities. We conducted a series of moderation analyses using data from a randomized controlled trial of the EMPWR (Educate, Motivate, Pro…
The respecting the circle of life teen pregnancy prevention intervention: Its impact among different subgroups of Native American youth
Community Perspectives on Social Influences on Suicide Within a Native American Reservation
Relative to the general population, Native Americans (NA) bear a disproportionate burden of suicide-related mortality rates. NA males and females aged 15 to 24 years experience suicide rates nearly 3 times than the U.S. all races rates in this age group. Although efforts have been made to understand and reduce suicide in tribal communities, a large portion has focused on individual characteristics with less attention given to social factors that …
The association of parental monitoring and parental communication with sexual and substance use risk behaviors among Native American Youth
Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Pregnancy Prevention Among Native American Youths: A Randomized Controlled Trial, 2016–2018
Objectives. To evaluate the efficacy of the Respecting the Circle of Life program (RCL) among Native American youths 11 to 19 years of age residing in a rural reservation community in the southwestern United States. Methods. Between 2016 and 2018, we conducted a randomized controlled trial of the RCL program with 534 Native youths. Participants completed assessments at baseline and 9 and 12 months after the intervention. We conducted intention-to…
Self-efficacy and response-efficacy: Critical components of sexual and reproductive health interventions targeting condom use intention among American Indian adolescents
The Respecting the Circle of Life (RCL) intervention is a comprehensive, skills-based sexual/reproductive health program shown to be effective for reducing sexual risk among American Indian (AI) adolescents (13-19 years of age). This paper seeks to identify critical program components of the RCL intervention for replication of impacts on condom use intention (CUI) when scaling to additional communities. RCL was tested among AI adolescents through…
Empowering our people’ to address depression, violence, and sexual risk among Native Americans with recent binge alcohol use
Background: This study was launched in response to an American Indian (AI) community's concern regarding the comorbid occurrence of substance use, poor mental health, and other risk factors on sexual health. The purpose of this manuscript was to assess the relationship between alcohol use, violence, depression and STI/HIV risk behaviors on the frequency of unprotected sex acts and number of sexual partners among AI adults. Methods: Specifically, …
Protecting our future generation: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial evaluating a sexual health self-care intervention with Native American youth and young adults
Clinical Trials: http://clinicaltrials.gov; NCT03895320; Registered 03/28/2019
Let our Apache Heritage and Culture Live on Forever and Teach the Young Ones”: Development of The Elders’ Resilience Curriculum, an Upstream Suicide Prevention Approach for American Indian Youth
Highlights This study is only one of few that describe the development of a ground up prevention intervention. This process can be replicated by other tribes to promote cultural beliefs, traditions and language. The Elders’ Curriculum is an intergenerational approach that taps cultural and community strengths
Risk and Protective Factors Associated With Lifetime Sexual Experience Among Rural, Reservation-Based American Indian Youth
Exploring sexual risk taking among American Indian adolescents through protection motivation theory
This paper examines decision-making around sexual behavior among reservation-based American Indian youth. Focus group discussions were conducted with youth ages 13-19 years old. Through these discussions, we explored youth's knowledge, attitudes and behaviors related to sexual risk taking through the lens of the protection motivation theory to inform the adaptation of an evidence-based HIV prevention intervention. Findings suggest that condom use…
Respecting the circle of life: One year outcomes from a randomized controlled comparison of an HIV risk reduction intervention for American Indian adolescents
Potential for widespread transmission of HIV/AIDS among American Indian (AI) adolescents exists, yet no evidence-based interventions (EBIs) have been adapted and evaluated with this population. Intensive psychoeducation may improve knowledge and decision-making which could potentially translate to reductions in HIV risk behaviors. A peer group randomized controlled comparison of an adapted EBI vs. control was delivered over an eight-day summer ba…
Risk Pathways for Suicide Among Native American Adolescents
Native American (Native) adolescents have the highest suicide rates in the United States, yet no conceptual models describing risk factors specific to this population exist. We sought to further hone a Native-specific conceptual model developed from quantitative data with qualitative data collected from a longitudinal series of interviews with ( N = 22) Native adolescents who had attempted suicide. Four levels of suicide risk emerged, detailing i…
Let our Apache Heritage and Culture Live on Forever and Teach the Young Ones”: Development of The Elders’ Resilience Curriculum, an Upstream Suicide Prevention Approach for American Indian Youth
Highlights This study is only one of few that describe the development of a ground up prevention intervention. This process can be replicated by other tribes to promote cultural beliefs, traditions and language. The Elders’ Curriculum is an intergenerational approach that taps cultural and community strengths
Risk Pathways for Suicide Among Native American Adolescents
Native American (Native) adolescents have the highest suicide rates in the United States, yet no conceptual models describing risk factors specific to this population exist. We sought to further hone a Native-specific conceptual model developed from quantitative data with qualitative data collected from a longitudinal series of interviews with ( N = 22) Native adolescents who had attempted suicide. Four levels of suicide risk emerged, detailing i…
Community Perspectives on Social Influences on Suicide Within a Native American Reservation
Relative to the general population, Native Americans (NA) bear a disproportionate burden of suicide-related mortality rates. NA males and females aged 15 to 24 years experience suicide rates nearly 3 times than the U.S. all races rates in this age group. Although efforts have been made to understand and reduce suicide in tribal communities, a large portion has focused on individual characteristics with less attention given to social factors that …
Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Pregnancy Prevention Among Native American Youths: A Randomized Controlled Trial, 2016–2018
Objectives. To evaluate the efficacy of the Respecting the Circle of Life program (RCL) among Native American youths 11 to 19 years of age residing in a rural reservation community in the southwestern United States. Methods. Between 2016 and 2018, we conducted a randomized controlled trial of the RCL program with 534 Native youths. Participants completed assessments at baseline and 9 and 12 months after the intervention. We conducted intention-to…
Empowering our people’ to address depression, violence, and sexual risk among Native Americans with recent binge alcohol use
Background: This study was launched in response to an American Indian (AI) community's concern regarding the comorbid occurrence of substance use, poor mental health, and other risk factors on sexual health. The purpose of this manuscript was to assess the relationship between alcohol use, violence, depression and STI/HIV risk behaviors on the frequency of unprotected sex acts and number of sexual partners among AI adults. Methods: Specifically, …
Risk Pathways for Suicide Among Native American Adolescents
Native American (Native) adolescents have the highest suicide rates in the United States, yet no conceptual models describing risk factors specific to this population exist. We sought to further hone a Native-specific conceptual model developed from quantitative data with qualitative data collected from a longitudinal series of interviews with ( N = 22) Native adolescents who had attempted suicide. Four levels of suicide risk emerged, detailing i…
Respecting the circle of life: One year outcomes from a randomized controlled comparison of an HIV risk reduction intervention for American Indian adolescents
Potential for widespread transmission of HIV/AIDS among American Indian (AI) adolescents exists, yet no evidence-based interventions (EBIs) have been adapted and evaluated with this population. Intensive psychoeducation may improve knowledge and decision-making which could potentially translate to reductions in HIV risk behaviors. A peer group randomized controlled comparison of an adapted EBI vs. control was delivered over an eight-day summer ba…
Exploring sexual risk taking among American Indian adolescents through protection motivation theory
This paper examines decision-making around sexual behavior among reservation-based American Indian youth. Focus group discussions were conducted with youth ages 13-19 years old. Through these discussions, we explored youth's knowledge, attitudes and behaviors related to sexual risk taking through the lens of the protection motivation theory to inform the adaptation of an evidence-based HIV prevention intervention. Findings suggest that condom use…
Risk and Protective Factors Associated With Lifetime Sexual Experience Among Rural, Reservation-Based American Indian Youth
Protecting our future generation: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial evaluating a sexual health self-care intervention with Native American youth and young adults
Clinical Trials: http://clinicaltrials.gov; NCT03895320; Registered 03/28/2019
Let our Apache Heritage and Culture Live on Forever and Teach the Young Ones”: Development of The Elders’ Resilience Curriculum, an Upstream Suicide Prevention Approach for American Indian Youth
Highlights This study is only one of few that describe the development of a ground up prevention intervention. This process can be replicated by other tribes to promote cultural beliefs, traditions and language. The Elders’ Curriculum is an intergenerational approach that taps cultural and community strengths
Self-efficacy and response-efficacy: Critical components of sexual and reproductive health interventions targeting condom use intention among American Indian adolescents
The Respecting the Circle of Life (RCL) intervention is a comprehensive, skills-based sexual/reproductive health program shown to be effective for reducing sexual risk among American Indian (AI) adolescents (13-19 years of age). This paper seeks to identify critical program components of the RCL intervention for replication of impacts on condom use intention (CUI) when scaling to additional communities. RCL was tested among AI adolescents through…
Empowering our people’ to address depression, violence, and sexual risk among Native Americans with recent binge alcohol use
Background: This study was launched in response to an American Indian (AI) community's concern regarding the comorbid occurrence of substance use, poor mental health, and other risk factors on sexual health. The purpose of this manuscript was to assess the relationship between alcohol use, violence, depression and STI/HIV risk behaviors on the frequency of unprotected sex acts and number of sexual partners among AI adults. Methods: Specifically, …
The association of parental monitoring and parental communication with sexual and substance use risk behaviors among Native American Youth
Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Pregnancy Prevention Among Native American Youths: A Randomized Controlled Trial, 2016–2018
Objectives. To evaluate the efficacy of the Respecting the Circle of Life program (RCL) among Native American youths 11 to 19 years of age residing in a rural reservation community in the southwestern United States. Methods. Between 2016 and 2018, we conducted a randomized controlled trial of the RCL program with 534 Native youths. Participants completed assessments at baseline and 9 and 12 months after the intervention. We conducted intention-to…
Predictors of STD Screening From the Indigenist Stress-Coping Model Among Native Adults With Binge Substance Use
Objective: The American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) population in the U.S. is thriving in spite of settler colonialist efforts of erasure. AI/AN people, however, continue to experience persistent health disparities including a disproportionate burden of substance use and sexually transmitted diseases/infections (STDs/STIs), as well as a disproportionate lack of public health STD screening services and STD prevention interventions grounded in AI/…
Empowering our people: Predictors of retention in an STI risk reduction program among rural Native Americans with binge substance use
Purpose Substance use and sexual risk‐taking have been shown to co‐occur. Programs focused on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) reduction may benefit substance‐using, particularly binge substance‐using, adults. This is especially true for rural Native American communities who endure sexual and substance use disparities and have few STI risk reduction programs. This study explores factors predicting retention in an STI risk reduction program …
Empowering Our People: Syndemic Moderators and Effects of a Culturally Adapted, Evidence-Based Intervention for Sexual Risk Reduction among Native Americans with Binge Substance Use
Native American (NA) communities are disproportionately affected by the intersecting, synergistic epidemics of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and substance use. Targeted approaches to addressing these syndemics are critical given the relative scarcity of mental health and behavioral specialists in NA communities. We conducted a series of moderation analyses using data from a randomized controlled trial of the EMPWR (Educate, Motivate, Pro…
The respecting the circle of life teen pregnancy prevention intervention: Its impact among different subgroups of Native American youth
Community Perspectives on Social Influences on Suicide Within a Native American Reservation
Relative to the general population, Native Americans (NA) bear a disproportionate burden of suicide-related mortality rates. NA males and females aged 15 to 24 years experience suicide rates nearly 3 times than the U.S. all races rates in this age group. Although efforts have been made to understand and reduce suicide in tribal communities, a large portion has focused on individual characteristics with less attention given to social factors that …
Engagement of Parents in an Evidence-Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for Native American Adolescents
Results suggest the following: (1) sexual health program designers should focus more on engaging male caregivers as well as adults with male youth in programming and (2) engaging parents in programs is a promising approach for cultivating and sustaining healthy behaviors among Native adolescents
Medicine (15 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (11 works) · Environmental health (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Family medicine (7 works) · Gerontology (7 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (7 works) · Demography (6 works)