Dale D Chitwood
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 80539 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dale D Chitwood |
| NOMBRES | Dale D |
| APELLIDO | Chitwood |
| FIRMA | CHITWOOD D D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Miami |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 261 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
A Systematic Review of Recent Literature on Religiosity and Substance Use
This paper contains a systematic review of articles about the relationship between religiosity/spirituality and alcohol and drug use that were published between 1997 and 2006. Summaries of methodological characteristics (e.g., study design, sample size and composition, specific dimensions of religiosity, and substances investigated) and general findings of 105 studies provide an overview of the field. The association between religiosity/spiritual…
Risk Factors Associated with the Transition with Transition to Heroin Injection
Effects of drug treatment for heroin sniffers
Prevalence and Risk Factors for HIV Among Sniffers, Short-Term Injectors, and Long-Term Injectors of Heroin
The prevalence of HIV and associated risk behaviors were assessed among three groups of heroin users: long term injection drug users (LTIDUs), new injection drug users (NIDUs), and heroin sniffers (HSs) with no history of injection. HIV seroprevalence was similar among NIDUs (13.3%) and HSs (12.7%). LTIDUs had almost twice as high a level of HIV infection (24.7%). After including drug use and sex behavior variables in logistic regression models, …
High risk sexual behaviours among heroin sniffers who have no history of injection drug use
The purpose of this paper is to assess sexual behaviours which place heroin sniffers (HSs) at high risk for HIV infection. A stratified network-based sample was used to recruit HSs who had no history of injection drug use was recruited from the streets of South Florida, USA. HSs displayed a high HIV seroprevalence rate of 12.1%; women (18.1%) were more likely than men (8.7%) to test positive for HIV. Both men and women HSs engaged in considerable…
Sex related HIV risk behaviors
First injection and current risk factors for HIV among new and long-term injection drug users
The purpose of this paper is to estimate HIV seroprevalence and to examine the injection and sexual risk behaviours of a cohort of active new heroin injectors who have initiated injection within the past four years and to compare their risk behaviours with those of long-term heroin injectors who initiated injection prior to January 1, 1985. A stratified network-based sample was used to recruit injection drug users (IDUs) from the streets of Miami…
Chronic illicit drug use, health services utilization and the cost of medical care
The prevalence and incidence of HIV among injection drug users
Drug dependency and HIV testing among state prisoners
A Comparison of the Need for Health Care and Use of Health Care by Injection-Drug Users, Other Chronic Drug Users, and Nondrug Users
This article compares the health care need and health care use of injection drug users, other chronic drug users, and nondrug users. Data from 1,330 non-Hispanic White, African American, and Hispanic/Latino men and women were analyzed to determine independent risk factors for two outcome variables: (a) need for health care treatment and (b) use of health care treatment. Ten independent demographic, health, and drug use variables were assessed in …
Reliability of self-reported HIV risk behaviors of drug users.
In AIDS research, relatively little attention has been paid to reliability of self-report of drug users. The authors examined the test-retest reliability of the Risk Behavior Assessment (NIDA, 1991) questionnaire. This structured-interview questionnaire was administered twice to 196 drug users in 5 cities over a 48-hr period. Findings indicated that respondents consistently self-report drug use, injection practices, and sexual behaviors; discrepa…
Drug Use Patterns of Adult Crack Users in Street versus Residential Treatment Samples
Studies of treatment samples have long been the primary source of generalizations about drug users, especially for drugs with very low prevalence rates in the general population, such as heroin and crack. Sample selection bias is briefly discussed, and a 1988-1990 study of 699 cocaine users in Miami is described. The drug patterns of the 387 adult crack users interviewed in that study are compared by sample type--residential treatment versus stre…
Risk factors for HIV-1 seroconversion among injection drug users
OBJECTIVES. A nested case-control study was conducted in Miami, Fla, to determine risk factors associated with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) seroconversion among injection drug users. METHODS. The study identified 21 incident cases of HIV-1 infection and 76 unmatched controls from two longitudinal cohorts of injection drug users. One cohort consisted of individuals who originally had been recruited from treatment centers; a second c…
Validity of self-reported drug use among injection drug users and crack cocaine users recruited through street outreach
HIV risk and injection drug users--evidence for behavioral change
HIV risk and injection drug users--evidence for behavioral change. D D ChitwoodCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.84.3.350 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Religious Institutions as Sources of Aids Information for Street Injection Drug Users
Duane C. McBride, Clyde B. McCoy, Dale D. Chitwood, James A. Inciardi, Edwin L. Hernandez, Patricia M. Mutch, Religious Institutions as Sources of AIDS Information for Street Injection Drug Users, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Jun., 1994), pp. 324-334
Ethnicity, Social Support, and Injection Drug Use
There is considerable agreement that the prevalence of diagnosed AIDS cases and the prevalence of HIV infection is greater among African American and Hispanic injection drug users (IDUs) than among Anglo (White, non-Hispanic) IDUs. There is less agreement on why this is the case. This lack of knowledge is related, in part, to the paucity of research on the cultural diversity among IDUs and the impact that cultural differences have on injection ri…
HIV risk-related sex behaviors among injection drug users, crack smokers, and injection drug users who smoke crack
OBJECTIVES. This study was designed to assess and compare sex risk behaviors for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission of three drug user groups: injectors who do not smoke crack, crack smokers who do not inject, and injectors who also smoke crack. METHODS. Sexual risk behaviors for HIV were assessed among 246 drug users from Denver, Miami, and San Francisco. Respondents were classified into the three drug groups based on self-report an…
Crack Cocaine Use and Sexual Activity in Miami, Florida
Data are analyzed from the Multicenter Study of Crack Cocaine and HIV Infection in Miami, Florida, examining interrelationships among use of crack cocaine, use of other drugs, sexual activity, and exchange of sex for money and drugs. This study was designed to recruit two groups of approximately equal size: persons who reported current use of crack cocaine three or more times per week, and those who had never used crack. Participants (N = 641) we…
Crack Use and Correlates of Use in a National Population of Street Heroin Users
Traditionally, researchers and clinicians have viewed street heroin users as representing an end point in a drug-using career. It is toward this population that major national treatment efforts have been directed. Concomitant with the historical national concern about heroin use has been concern about the increase in crack cocaine use. There has been speculation that crack use may have become a substitute for the higher risk of heroin injection. …
The donation and sale of blood by intravenous drug users
In spite of efforts to dissuade intravenous drug users (IVDUs) from donating or selling blood, some continue to do so. As part of a longitudinal study, 915 IVDUs in South Florida were interviewed concerning their history of donation or sale of blood and tested for antibodies to HIV-1 and HTLV-I/II. Approximately 17 percent had either donated or sold blood during 1985 through 1988; most contributors (80.4 percent) sold to commercial blood services…
Prostitution, Iv Drug Use, and Sexfor‐crack Exchanges Among Serious Delinquents
There is mounting evidence that HIV infection among adolescents is increasing, particularly among minorities and inner‐city youths involved in certain high‐risk activities, such as multiple sex partners and intravenous drug use. Interviews conducted “on the street” with 611 seriously delinquent male and female adolescents (ages 12–17) included questions about their involvement in prostitution, intravenous drug use, and sex‐for‐crack exchanges. Fi…
HIV seropositivity of needles from shooting galleries in south Florida
Needle/syringe combinations were collected from three shooting galleries in South Florida and tested for the presence of antibodies to HIV-1. Fifteen of 148 needles (10.1 percent) tested positive for HIV-1 antibody. Seropositivity rates did not vary by the day of the week of collection, nor by shooting gallery from which they were collected. When the needle appeared to contain blood residue, 20.0 percent were positive versus 5.1 percent with no b…
Methodological problems in Aids behavioral research
An unprecedented number of human sexuality studies have been initiated in response to the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic. Unfortunately, methodological developments in the field of sex research have been slow in meeting the demands of AIDS investigations focusing on the diverse populations at risk for infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (e.g., adolescents, gay men, intravenous-drug users, ethnic minorities, elderl…
Methodological problems in Aids behavioral research
An unprecedented number of human sexuality studies have been initiated in response to the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic. Unfortunately, methodological developments in the field of sex research have been slow in meeting the demands of AIDS investigations focusing on the diverse populations at risk for infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (e.g., adolescents, gay men, intravenous-drug users, ethnic minorities, elderl…
HIV risk-related sex behaviors among injection drug users, crack smokers, and injection drug users who smoke crack
OBJECTIVES. This study was designed to assess and compare sex risk behaviors for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission of three drug user groups: injectors who do not smoke crack, crack smokers who do not inject, and injectors who also smoke crack. METHODS. Sexual risk behaviors for HIV were assessed among 246 drug users from Denver, Miami, and San Francisco. Respondents were classified into the three drug groups based on self-report an…
Chronic illicit drug use, health services utilization and the cost of medical care
HIV seropositivity of needles from shooting galleries in south Florida
Needle/syringe combinations were collected from three shooting galleries in South Florida and tested for the presence of antibodies to HIV-1. Fifteen of 148 needles (10.1 percent) tested positive for HIV-1 antibody. Seropositivity rates did not vary by the day of the week of collection, nor by shooting gallery from which they were collected. When the needle appeared to contain blood residue, 20.0 percent were positive versus 5.1 percent with no b…
Intravenous Drug Use and HIV Infection in Miami
In this article we report the results of a study of needle-using behaviors in a street-recruited, noninstitutionalized sample of intravenous drug users (IVDUs) in Miami-Dade County. Survey data, elicited from 230 IVDUs, indicate a statistically significant relationship between injection frequency and antibody seropositivity for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Self-reported needle-sharing behavior and use of safe houses (i.e., shooting gal…
Prostitution, Iv Drug Use, and Sexfor‐crack Exchanges Among Serious Delinquents
There is mounting evidence that HIV infection among adolescents is increasing, particularly among minorities and inner‐city youths involved in certain high‐risk activities, such as multiple sex partners and intravenous drug use. Interviews conducted “on the street” with 611 seriously delinquent male and female adolescents (ages 12–17) included questions about their involvement in prostitution, intravenous drug use, and sex‐for‐crack exchanges. Fi…
Risk factors for HIV-1 seroconversion among injection drug users
OBJECTIVES. A nested case-control study was conducted in Miami, Fla, to determine risk factors associated with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) seroconversion among injection drug users. METHODS. The study identified 21 incident cases of HIV-1 infection and 76 unmatched controls from two longitudinal cohorts of injection drug users. One cohort consisted of individuals who originally had been recruited from treatment centers; a second c…
Drugs, Sex, and Aids Risk
A Comparison of the Need for Health Care and Use of Health Care by Injection-Drug Users, Other Chronic Drug Users, and Nondrug Users
This article compares the health care need and health care use of injection drug users, other chronic drug users, and nondrug users. Data from 1,330 non-Hispanic White, African American, and Hispanic/Latino men and women were analyzed to determine independent risk factors for two outcome variables: (a) need for health care treatment and (b) use of health care treatment. Ten independent demographic, health, and drug use variables were assessed in …
Effects of drug treatment for heroin sniffers
HIV risk and injection drug users--evidence for behavioral change
HIV risk and injection drug users--evidence for behavioral change. D D ChitwoodCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.84.3.350 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Ethnicity, Social Support, and Injection Drug Use
There is considerable agreement that the prevalence of diagnosed AIDS cases and the prevalence of HIV infection is greater among African American and Hispanic injection drug users (IDUs) than among Anglo (White, non-Hispanic) IDUs. There is less agreement on why this is the case. This lack of knowledge is related, in part, to the paucity of research on the cultural diversity among IDUs and the impact that cultural differences have on injection ri…
Cocaine Users' View of Themselves
Indigenous theories of behavior are an integral part of any cultural knowledge system. While researchers in the field of implicit personality theory emphasize investigation of interrelationships of traits elicited in experimental settings, this analysis addresses naturally occurring typological assessments as
The donation and sale of blood by intravenous drug users
In spite of efforts to dissuade intravenous drug users (IVDUs) from donating or selling blood, some continue to do so. As part of a longitudinal study, 915 IVDUs in South Florida were interviewed concerning their history of donation or sale of blood and tested for antibodies to HIV-1 and HTLV-I/II. Approximately 17 percent had either donated or sold blood during 1985 through 1988; most contributors (80.4 percent) sold to commercial blood services…
Cocaine Users' View of Themselves
Indigenous theories of behavior are an integral part of any cultural knowledge system. While researchers in the field of implicit personality theory emphasize investigation of interrelationships of traits elicited in experimental settings, this analysis addresses naturally occurring typological assessments as
How Women and Men Get Cocaine
HIV seropositivity of needles from shooting galleries in south Florida
Needle/syringe combinations were collected from three shooting galleries in South Florida and tested for the presence of antibodies to HIV-1. Fifteen of 148 needles (10.1 percent) tested positive for HIV-1 antibody. Seropositivity rates did not vary by the day of the week of collection, nor by shooting gallery from which they were collected. When the needle appeared to contain blood residue, 20.0 percent were positive versus 5.1 percent with no b…
Methodological problems in Aids behavioral research
An unprecedented number of human sexuality studies have been initiated in response to the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic. Unfortunately, methodological developments in the field of sex research have been slow in meeting the demands of AIDS investigations focusing on the diverse populations at risk for infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (e.g., adolescents, gay men, intravenous-drug users, ethnic minorities, elderl…
Drugs, Sex, and Aids Risk
Intravenous Drug Use and HIV Infection in Miami
In this article we report the results of a study of needle-using behaviors in a street-recruited, noninstitutionalized sample of intravenous drug users (IVDUs) in Miami-Dade County. Survey data, elicited from 230 IVDUs, indicate a statistically significant relationship between injection frequency and antibody seropositivity for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Self-reported needle-sharing behavior and use of safe houses (i.e., shooting gal…
The donation and sale of blood by intravenous drug users
In spite of efforts to dissuade intravenous drug users (IVDUs) from donating or selling blood, some continue to do so. As part of a longitudinal study, 915 IVDUs in South Florida were interviewed concerning their history of donation or sale of blood and tested for antibodies to HIV-1 and HTLV-I/II. Approximately 17 percent had either donated or sold blood during 1985 through 1988; most contributors (80.4 percent) sold to commercial blood services…
Prostitution, Iv Drug Use, and Sexfor‐crack Exchanges Among Serious Delinquents
There is mounting evidence that HIV infection among adolescents is increasing, particularly among minorities and inner‐city youths involved in certain high‐risk activities, such as multiple sex partners and intravenous drug use. Interviews conducted “on the street” with 611 seriously delinquent male and female adolescents (ages 12–17) included questions about their involvement in prostitution, intravenous drug use, and sex‐for‐crack exchanges. Fi…
Crack Cocaine Use and Sexual Activity in Miami, Florida
Data are analyzed from the Multicenter Study of Crack Cocaine and HIV Infection in Miami, Florida, examining interrelationships among use of crack cocaine, use of other drugs, sexual activity, and exchange of sex for money and drugs. This study was designed to recruit two groups of approximately equal size: persons who reported current use of crack cocaine three or more times per week, and those who had never used crack. Participants (N = 641) we…
Crack Use and Correlates of Use in a National Population of Street Heroin Users
Traditionally, researchers and clinicians have viewed street heroin users as representing an end point in a drug-using career. It is toward this population that major national treatment efforts have been directed. Concomitant with the historical national concern about heroin use has been concern about the increase in crack cocaine use. There has been speculation that crack use may have become a substitute for the higher risk of heroin injection. …
HIV risk-related sex behaviors among injection drug users, crack smokers, and injection drug users who smoke crack
OBJECTIVES. This study was designed to assess and compare sex risk behaviors for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission of three drug user groups: injectors who do not smoke crack, crack smokers who do not inject, and injectors who also smoke crack. METHODS. Sexual risk behaviors for HIV were assessed among 246 drug users from Denver, Miami, and San Francisco. Respondents were classified into the three drug groups based on self-report an…
Validity of self-reported drug use among injection drug users and crack cocaine users recruited through street outreach
HIV risk and injection drug users--evidence for behavioral change
HIV risk and injection drug users--evidence for behavioral change. D D ChitwoodCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.84.3.350 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Religious Institutions as Sources of Aids Information for Street Injection Drug Users
Duane C. McBride, Clyde B. McCoy, Dale D. Chitwood, James A. Inciardi, Edwin L. Hernandez, Patricia M. Mutch, Religious Institutions as Sources of AIDS Information for Street Injection Drug Users, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Jun., 1994), pp. 324-334
Ethnicity, Social Support, and Injection Drug Use
There is considerable agreement that the prevalence of diagnosed AIDS cases and the prevalence of HIV infection is greater among African American and Hispanic injection drug users (IDUs) than among Anglo (White, non-Hispanic) IDUs. There is less agreement on why this is the case. This lack of knowledge is related, in part, to the paucity of research on the cultural diversity among IDUs and the impact that cultural differences have on injection ri…
Reliability of self-reported HIV risk behaviors of drug users.
In AIDS research, relatively little attention has been paid to reliability of self-report of drug users. The authors examined the test-retest reliability of the Risk Behavior Assessment (NIDA, 1991) questionnaire. This structured-interview questionnaire was administered twice to 196 drug users in 5 cities over a 48-hr period. Findings indicated that respondents consistently self-report drug use, injection practices, and sexual behaviors; discrepa…
Drug Use Patterns of Adult Crack Users in Street versus Residential Treatment Samples
Studies of treatment samples have long been the primary source of generalizations about drug users, especially for drugs with very low prevalence rates in the general population, such as heroin and crack. Sample selection bias is briefly discussed, and a 1988-1990 study of 699 cocaine users in Miami is described. The drug patterns of the 387 adult crack users interviewed in that study are compared by sample type--residential treatment versus stre…
Risk factors for HIV-1 seroconversion among injection drug users
OBJECTIVES. A nested case-control study was conducted in Miami, Fla, to determine risk factors associated with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) seroconversion among injection drug users. METHODS. The study identified 21 incident cases of HIV-1 infection and 76 unmatched controls from two longitudinal cohorts of injection drug users. One cohort consisted of individuals who originally had been recruited from treatment centers; a second c…
A Comparison of the Need for Health Care and Use of Health Care by Injection-Drug Users, Other Chronic Drug Users, and Nondrug Users
This article compares the health care need and health care use of injection drug users, other chronic drug users, and nondrug users. Data from 1,330 non-Hispanic White, African American, and Hispanic/Latino men and women were analyzed to determine independent risk factors for two outcome variables: (a) need for health care treatment and (b) use of health care treatment. Ten independent demographic, health, and drug use variables were assessed in …
The prevalence and incidence of HIV among injection drug users
Drug dependency and HIV testing among state prisoners
Sex related HIV risk behaviors
First injection and current risk factors for HIV among new and long-term injection drug users
The purpose of this paper is to estimate HIV seroprevalence and to examine the injection and sexual risk behaviours of a cohort of active new heroin injectors who have initiated injection within the past four years and to compare their risk behaviours with those of long-term heroin injectors who initiated injection prior to January 1, 1985. A stratified network-based sample was used to recruit injection drug users (IDUs) from the streets of Miami…
Chronic illicit drug use, health services utilization and the cost of medical care
High risk sexual behaviours among heroin sniffers who have no history of injection drug use
The purpose of this paper is to assess sexual behaviours which place heroin sniffers (HSs) at high risk for HIV infection. A stratified network-based sample was used to recruit HSs who had no history of injection drug use was recruited from the streets of South Florida, USA. HSs displayed a high HIV seroprevalence rate of 12.1%; women (18.1%) were more likely than men (8.7%) to test positive for HIV. Both men and women HSs engaged in considerable…
Medicine (27 obras) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (23 obras) · Drug (19 obras) · Psychiatry (17 obras) · Environmental health (14 obras) · Psychology (13 obras) · Demography (12 obras) · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (11 obras) · Drug injection (10 obras) · Family medicine (10 obras)