Abigail Harrison
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3827827 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Abigail Harrison |
| PRENOMES | Abigail |
| SOBRENOME | Harrison |
| ASSINATURA | HARRISON A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1938-5513 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
“You could hear their breathing slow down”
High rates of AIDS-related mortality and HIV incidence persist due to delayed antiretroviral therapy (ART) uptake and retention. We qualitatively assessed the feasibility and acceptability of "From Now On" (FNO) - a short video-based psychosocial support intervention to increase ART uptake and improve psychosocial well-being among men newly diagnosed with HIV in South Africa. In-depth interviews were conducted with men who were shown FNO during p…
The Validation of the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire-R18 Among Black and Black Multi-Ethnic Female University Students in Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica
This study examined the construct validity of the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire Revised-18 (TFEQ-R18), an eating behavior instrument designed to measure Uncontrolled Eating, Emotional Eating, and Cognitive Restraint, in a sample of Black and Black multi-ethnic Caribbean female university students. Four hundred thirty-five female participants aged 18–59 consented to complete self-administered questionnaires, including TFEQ-R18, sociocultural, …
Gender norms and sexual violence among South African adolescents
Social norms, particularly those pertaining to gender equity, can shape attitudes and behaviors that contribute to adolescent sexual violence (SV). This study examines personal attitudes and perceived peer norms regarding gender equity and associations with perpetration of SV among 100 South Africans aged 13-17 in 2019. We assessed: (1) sexual activity and SV behaviors and (2) personal attitudes and perceived peer norms around gender equity. Desc…
Acceptability, Feasibility, and Preliminary Efficacy of Schools Championing Safe South Africa, a Social Norms Intervention to Prevent HIV Risk Behavior and Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence Am…
Schools Championing Safe South Africa is an intervention to prevent sexual violence perpetration and HIV/STI risk behavior among teenage boys, focusing on correcting misperceived social norms regarding risk behavior and engaging boys, teachers and peers in school. We tested its acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary efficacy in a pilot RCT (N = 282). 99% of intervention boys reported high satisfaction with content, format, and delivery. Ther…
I Have to Stand Up on My Own and Do the Best I Can for My Kids”a
In recent years, significant progress has been made in treatment access for women living with HIV (WLHIV). For example, option B+, which requires that all pregnant persons who test positive for HIV start on antiretroviral treatment, has been instrumental in reducing the risk of vertical transmission. For birthing individuals who have a low HIV viral load, there is a minimized risk of vertical transmission during breastfeeding. However, an alarmin…
Adolescent connectedness and its impact on substance use in Jamaican adolescents
Social resources, resilience, and sexual health among South African adolescent girls and young women
Socioecological factors, including social resources, influence South African adolescent girls' and young women's sexual health. Few studies have explored how these multi-level social factors relate to both resilience and sexual health in this community. This study examines if social resources mediate associations between resilience and two sexual health outcomes. A weighted-sample of 7,237 South African girls and young women (aged 15-24 years) co…
An Enterprising Take on Undergraduate Research in English
This article profiles a University of North Carolina Greensboro undergraduate research digital humanities opportunity. The authors explain how their faculty-student-library team met challenges of generating a digital exhibit while overcoming typical resource constraints. They articulate three sites of applied knowledge the student gained from this research and detail the project design and efforts to call attention to invisible undergraduate rese…
Physical activity and disordered eating behaviours
Excessive physical activity (PA) has been linked to increased risk for disordered eating behaviours and eating disorders. This study investigates the relationship between PA and disordered eating behaviours and attitudes (DEBAs) among Jamaican adolescents. This cross‐sectional study included 521 adolescents, 12–19 years. Anthropometric measurements were collected, and adolescents completed questionnaires on disordered eating behaviours (EAT‐26), …
Contraceptive trajectories postpartum
Empowerment in pregnancy
Systematic review of research focused on pregnant and postpartum women living with HIV
Historically, maternal HIV research has focused on prevention of mother‐to‐child transmission and child outcomes, with little focus on the health outcomes of mothers. Over the course of the HIV epidemic, the approach to including pregnant women in research has shifted. The current landscape lends itself to reviewing the public health ethics of this research. This systematic review aims to identify ethical barriers and considerations for including…
Mindfulness-Based College
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate effects of a mindfulness-based program, adapted to the young adult life course stage (age, 18-29 years), named Mindfulness-Based College (MB-College). The primary outcome was a young adult health summary score, composed of key health risk factors: body mass index, physical activity, fruit and vegetable intake, alcohol consumption, stress, loneliness, and sleep duration. Secondary outcomes were hypothesized self-regulation m…
Sexual Prejudice and Comfort to Provide Services to Men Who Have Sex with Men Among HIV Healthcare Workers in Western Kenya
The Money, It’s OK but It’s not OK”
Acceptability of an Intervention to Promote Viral Suppression and Serostatus Disclosure for Men Living with HIV in South Africa
Men living with HIV (MLWH) often have reproductive goals that can increase HIV-transmission risks to their pregnancy partners. We developed a safer conception intervention for MLWH in South Africa employing cognitive behavioral skills to promote serostatus disclosure, ART uptake, and viral suppression. MLWH were recruited from an HIV clinic near Durban, South Africa, and encouraged to include partners in follow-up visits. Exit in-depth interviews…
Cultural adaptation and validation of a measure of prejudice against men who have sex with men among healthcare providers in western Kenya
Sexual prejudice toward men who have sex with men (MSM) is a pressing concern in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Given the high HIV infection risk among this population, sexual prejudice perpetuated by healthcare providers, affects access to and willingness of MSM to seek HIV care services. However, data on healthcare providers' attitudes towards MSM in SSA are limited, and there are no locally-adapted measures of sexual prejudice. We adapted a scale t…
This is My Life We are Talking About”
Isay (incentives for South African youth)
The Role of Gender in Patient–Provider Relationships
HIV Prevention Among Young Women in South Africa
The problem or the solution? Early fertility and parenthood in the transition to adulthood in Khayelitsha, South Africa
In South Africa, early fertility and teenage pregnancy have become a central focus of both political and public health concern. In this article, we explore the ways that young men and women have used their fertility and performance of parenthood to navigate the transition from childhood to adulthood. For these young people, the persistent inequities related to income poverty, inadequate education, lack of employment opportunities and a high burde…
TheEmpower Nudgelottery to increase dual protection use
The objective of this study is to measure the preliminary efficacy of a pilot intervention, grounded in behavioural economics, increasing adherence of dual protection (simultaneous use of effective modern contraception and a barrier method, such as a condom) to protect against HIV, other sexually transmitted infections, and unintended pregnancy. Between 2015 and 2016, 100 women aged 18-40 years, seeking post-abortion care in Cape Town, South Afri…
Effectiveness of peer-led interventions to increase HIV testing among men who have sex with men
Stumbling Blocks at the Clinic
Understanding safe sex
In South Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic, young people, especially women, are at high risk due to an apparent gap between awareness and practice. In repeated peer group discussions with girls aged 14-15 and boys aged 16-19, we explored influences on safe sex behaviour. Separate male and female safe sex paradigms emerged, with boys less likely to perceive themselves as 'at risk' and more likely to use condoms. Girls had not used condoms, would have pre…
Gender Role and Relationship Norms among Young Adults in South Africa
Men, Multiple Sexual Partners, and Young Adults’ Sexual Relationships
Life Histories, Reproductive Histories
Reproductive health has become a priority public health concern in recent years, although less attention has been paid to women's own reproductive health priorities. Qualitative research in this area is important in elucidating an understanding of women's roles in both social and biological reproduction, and in gaining access to women's perceptions of their own reproductive health. In this study, we examined rural Zulu women's perspectives on rep…
Young People's Sexual Partnerships in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa
Certain sexual partnering practices, such as multiple, concurrent, or age‐discrepant partnerships, are known to increase HIV risk. Yet the underlying dynamics of young people's relationships are less clearly understood. Using household survey and qualitative data, this study examines partnership dynamics and characteristics in the context of HIV risk, including number of partners, age differences, partnership duration and concurrency, and frequen…
Contraceptive trajectories postpartum
TheMpondombiliProject
Unintended pregnancy, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections are major threats to the health of South African youth. Gendered social norms make it difficult for young women to negotiate safer sex, and sexual coercion and violence are prevalent. Sexual activity among adolescents is influenced strongly by conservative social norms, which favour abstinence. In reality, most young people are sexually active by the end of the teen years. Girls’…
The problem or the solution? Early fertility and parenthood in the transition to adulthood in Khayelitsha, South Africa
In South Africa, early fertility and teenage pregnancy have become a central focus of both political and public health concern. In this article, we explore the ways that young men and women have used their fertility and performance of parenthood to navigate the transition from childhood to adulthood. For these young people, the persistent inequities related to income poverty, inadequate education, lack of employment opportunities and a high burde…
The Cape Town boyfriend and the Joburg boyfriend
In South Africa, young people's "multiple" or "concurrent" partnerships have been increasingly prominent in public health discourses - as drivers of HIV transmission. Multiple partnerships are typically framed in moralising, negative terms and depicted primarily as male-driven, within a broader framework of women's vulnerability and use of sex for survival and material gain. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with adolescents and young adults in Kha…
Life Histories, Reproductive Histories
Reproductive health has become a priority public health concern in recent years, although less attention has been paid to women's own reproductive health priorities. Qualitative research in this area is important in elucidating an understanding of women's roles in both social and biological reproduction, and in gaining access to women's perceptions of their own reproductive health. In this study, we examined rural Zulu women's perspectives on rep…
Understanding safe sex
In South Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic, young people, especially women, are at high risk due to an apparent gap between awareness and practice. In repeated peer group discussions with girls aged 14-15 and boys aged 16-19, we explored influences on safe sex behaviour. Separate male and female safe sex paradigms emerged, with boys less likely to perceive themselves as 'at risk' and more likely to use condoms. Girls had not used condoms, would have pre…
The social dynamics of adolescent risk for HIV
ABIGAIL HARRISON discusses research into how social factors put youth in rural KwaZulu-Natal at risk of HIV, and how this research was used to design an intervention
Gender dynamics in the primary sexual relationships of young rural South African women and men
A substantial body of South African research describes the importance of gender dynamics within sexual relationships as factors underlying HIV risk, yet we know little about these factors among young adults-a group at exceptionally high risk of infection. Our primary objective was to explore the ways that young adult men and women interpret and enact gender roles within their established primary partnerships, and how these dynamics influence sexu…
Gender Role and Relationship Norms among Young Adults in South Africa
Men, Multiple Sexual Partners, and Young Adults’ Sexual Relationships
TheMpondombiliProject
Unintended pregnancy, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections are major threats to the health of South African youth. Gendered social norms make it difficult for young women to negotiate safer sex, and sexual coercion and violence are prevalent. Sexual activity among adolescents is influenced strongly by conservative social norms, which favour abstinence. In reality, most young people are sexually active by the end of the teen years. Girls’…
Body Concepts
In a society overwhelmed by HIV/AIDS, a particularly compelling public health question in South Africa is how young people integrate the scientific discourse of HIV/AIDS and pregnancy/contraception with lay beliefs and practices. Our objective was to conduct a preliminary exploration of concepts and related beliefs among young women and men regarding the body, disease and pregnancy. In-depth interviews were conducted with 50 sexually active stude…
Hidden Love
In KwaZulu/Natal, South Africa, the social construction of young people's sexuality reflects both a complex historical process of cultural and religious integration, as well as the contemporary resurgence of 'traditionalism'. How do young people interpret these factors to construct and give meaning to their own sexualities? This multi-method qualitative study examined sexuality and relationship formation among sexually experienced young people ag…
Young People's Sexual Partnerships in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa
Certain sexual partnering practices, such as multiple, concurrent, or age‐discrepant partnerships, are known to increase HIV risk. Yet the underlying dynamics of young people's relationships are less clearly understood. Using household survey and qualitative data, this study examines partnership dynamics and characteristics in the context of HIV risk, including number of partners, age differences, partnership duration and concurrency, and frequen…
HIV prevention for South African youth
In the Absence of Marriage
Adolescent health screening practices by physicians in Jamaica
The data suggest unsatisfactory frequency of adolescent health screening by Jamaican physicians, in particular for psychosocial factors. The primary factors identified by physicians as influencing their screening practices have potential for improvement through continued medical education
Teachers' attitudes towards adolescent sexuality and life skills education in rural South Africa
This study investigated the attitudes of 43 teachers and school administrators towards sex education, young people's sexuality and their communities in 19 secondary schools in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and how these attitudes affect school-based HIV prevention and sex education. In interviews, teachers expressed judgemental attitudes towards young people's sexuality and pregnant students, and focused on girls' perceived irresponsible beh…
Re-focusing the Gender Lens
Management of non-marital fertility in two South African communities
In this analysis, we draw on qualitative data to examine the management of non-marital fertility among young women in two rural, Black communities situated in different provinces of South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga. While the two communities share a history of economic and social disadvantage and limited access to the labour market, there are, nonetheless, distinctive features that are evident in the management of non-marital fertility.…
Rape in Nigeria
No abstract available. (Published: 22 August 2014) Citation : Glob Health Action 2014, 7 : 25583 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v7.25583
Ethical Issues in Adolescents' Sexual and Reproductive Health Research in N igeria
There is increasing interest in the need to address the ethical dilemmas related to the engagement of adolescents in sexual and reproductive health ( SRH ) research. Research projects, including those that address issues related to STI s and HIV , adverse pregnancy outcomes, violence, and mental health, must be designed and implemented to address the needs of adolescents. Decisions on when an individual has adequate capacity to give consent for r…
Inkwari
Psychological Stressors and Coping Strategies Used by Adolescents Living with and Not Living with Hiv Infection in Nigeria
The Cape Town boyfriend and the Joburg boyfriend
In South Africa, young people's "multiple" or "concurrent" partnerships have been increasingly prominent in public health discourses - as drivers of HIV transmission. Multiple partnerships are typically framed in moralising, negative terms and depicted primarily as male-driven, within a broader framework of women's vulnerability and use of sex for survival and material gain. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with adolescents and young adults in Kha…
Effectiveness of peer-led interventions to increase HIV testing among men who have sex with men
Stumbling Blocks at the Clinic
Developing a Safer Conception Intervention for Men Living with HIV in South Africa
Within sexual partnerships, men make many decisions about sexual behavior, reproductive goals, and HIV prevention. There are increasing calls to involve men in reproductive health and HIV prevention. This paper describes the process of creating and evaluating the acceptability of a safer conception intervention for men living with HIV who want to have children with partners at risk for acquiring HIV in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Based on format…
Readiness for Antiretroviral Therapy
Psychology (39 obras) · Medicine (37 obras) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (33 obras) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (30 obras) · Family medicine (26 obras) · Sociology (25 obras) · Demography (19 obras) · Nursing (19 obras) · Public health (18 obras) · Social Psychology (17 obras)