Risk-Taking

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Nothing Is Free": A Qualitative Study of Sex Trading Among Methamphetamine Users in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • A Brief Prenatal Intervention of Behavioral Change to Reduce the Risk of Maternal Cytomegalovirus: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • A Public Health Perspective on School Dropout and Adult Outcomes: A Prospective Study of Risk and Protective Factors From Age 5 to 27 Years. 
  • A computer-based interview to identify HIV risk behaviors and to assess patient preferences for HIV-related health states. 
  • A fruit in the hand or two in the bush? Divergent risk preferences in chimpanzees and bonobos. 
  • A neuroscience perspective on sexual risk behavior in adolescence and emerging adulthood. 
  • A parallel process growth mixture model of conduct problems and substance use with risky sexual behavior. 
  • A phase II study of two HIV type 1 envelope vaccines, comparing their immunogenicity in populations at risk for acquiring HIV type 1 infection. AIDS Vaccine Evaluation Group. 
  • A qualitative analysis of partner selection, HIV serostatus disclosure, and sexual behaviors among HIV-positive urban men. 
  • A randomized trial of computer-based reminders and audit and feedback to improve HIV screening in a primary care setting. 
  • Acculturation, risk behaviors and physical dating violence victimization among Cuban-American adolescents. 
  • Adolescents and parental caregivers as lay health advisers in a community-based risk reduction intervention for youth: baseline data from Teach One, Reach One. 
  • Affecting perceptions of harm and addiction among college waterpipe tobacco smokers. 
  • Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World. 
  • Age differences in risky choice: a meta-analysis. 
  • Alcohol drinking patterns by gender, ethnicity, and social class in Bahia, Brazil. 
  • Alcohol use, eating patterns, and weight behaviors in a university population. 
  • Alcohol-Impaired Driving and Perceived Risks of Legal Consequences. 
  • Alcohol-Related Risky Behavior Patterns and Their Association With Alcohol Use and Perceived Alcohol Stigma in Moshi, Tanzania. 
  • Allocation of transplantable organs: do people want to punish patients for causing their illness? 
  • An evidence-based group coping intervention for women living with HIV and history of childhood sexual abuse. 
  • An integrated, multidimensional treatment model for individuals living with HIV, mental illness, and substance abuse. 
  • Around the world, adolescence is a time of heightened sensation seeking and immature self-regulation. 
  • Assessing and Predicting Susceptibility to Waterpipe Tobacco Use Among College Students. 
  • Assessing university students' sexual risk behaviors as predictors of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine uptake behavior. 
  • Association between Increased Emergency Contraception Availability and Risky Sexual Practices. 
  • Association of Economic Status and Educational Attainment With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Mendelian Randomization Study. 
  • Associations Between Fathers' and Sons' Sexual Risk in Rural Kenya: The Potential for Intergenerational Transmission. 
  • Associations between adolescent risk behaviors and injury: the modifying role of disability. 
  • Associations between patterns of emerging sexual behavior and young adult reproductive health. 
  • Attitudes, psychology, and risk taking of potential live kidney donors: strangers, relatives, and the general public. 
  • Avoidant Coping Mediates the Relationship Between Self-Efficacy for HIV Disclosure and Depression Symptoms Among Men Who Have Sex with Men Newly Diagnosed with HIV. 
  • Behavioral Inefficiency on a Risky Decision-Making Task in Adulthood after Adolescent Intermittent Ethanol Exposure in Rats. 
  • Bipolar disorder is associated with HIV transmission risk behavior among patients in treatment for HIV. 
  • Black sexuality, social construction, and research targeting 'The Down Low' ('The DL'). 
  • Brief measures of sensation seeking for screening and large-scale surveys. 
  • Can prospect theory explain risk-seeking behavior by terminally ill patients? 
  • Cautiousness and verbal learning in adulthood. 
  • Changes in Anxiety and Depression Symptoms Predict Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Young Men Living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 
  • Changes in HIV risk behavior and seroincidence among clients presenting for repeat HIV counseling and testing in Moshi, Tanzania. 
  • Characteristics of HIV voluntary counseling and testing clients before and during care and treatment scale-up in Moshi, Tanzania. 
  • Childhood abuse and initial presentation for HIV care: an opportunity for early intervention. 
  • Childhood behavior problems linked to sexual risk taking in young adulthood: a birth cohort study. 
  • Childhood cancer survivorship research in minority populations: A position paper from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Childhood sexual abuse in men who have sex with men: the current state of the science. 
  • Chimpanzees and bonobos exhibit emotional responses to decision outcomes. 
  • Clinical correlates of tardive dyskinesia in schizophrenia: baseline data from the CATIE schizophrenia trial. 
  • Clinical presentation of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in preschool children: the Preschoolers with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Treatment Study (PATS). 
  • Cocaine and HIV are independently associated with neural activation in response to gain and loss valuation during economic risky choice. 
  • College students lack knowledge of standard drink volumes: implications for definitions of risky drinking based on survey data. 
  • Community-level HIV prevention for persons with severe mental illness living in supportive housing programs: a pilot intervention study. 
  • Comparing Perceptions with Actual Reports of Close Friend's HIV Testing Behavior Among Urban Tanzanian Men. 
  • Comparing behavioral health models for reducing risky drinking among older male veterans. 
  • Comparing patterns of sexual risk among adolescent and young women in a mixed-method study in Tanzania: implications for adolescent participation in HIV prevention trials. 
  • Compensatory activation in fronto-parietal cortices among HIV-infected persons during a monetary decision-making task. 
  • Complex transmission dynamics of clonally related virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis associated with barhopping by predominantly human immunodeficiency virus-positive gay men. 
  • Concordance between self-reported substance use and toxicology among HIV-infected and uninfected at risk youth. 
  • Consistency and timing of marital transitions and survival during midlife: the role of personality and health risk behaviors. 
  • Continued high risk sexual behavior following diagnosis with acute HIV infection in South Africa and Malawi: implications for prevention. 
  • Coping strategies and patterns of alcohol and drug use among HIV-infected patients in the United States Southeast. 
  • Correlates of tobacco-use pattern amongst adolescents in two schools of New Delhi, India. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of free HIV voluntary counseling and testing through a community-based AIDS service organization in Northern Tanzania. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of screening for HIV. 
  • Covariations of eating behaviors with other health-related behaviors among adolescents. 
  • Covariations of unhealthy weight loss behaviors and other high-risk behaviors among adolescents. 
  • Covid-19: re-opening universities is high risk. 
  • Credit card debt, stress and key health risk behaviors among college students. 
  • Decision strategies to reduce teenage and young adult deaths in the United States. 
  • Decision-making and risk aversion among depressive adults. 
  • Depression, sexually transmitted infection, and sexual risk behavior among young adults in the United States. 
  • Depressive symptoms, substance use, and HIV-related high-risk behaviors among opioid-dependent individuals: results from the Clinical Trials Network. 
  • Developing a school functioning index for middle schools. 
  • Different Kinds of Lonely: Dimensions of Isolation and Substance Use in Adolescence. 
  • Differential patterns of amygdala and ventral striatum activation predict gender-specific changes in sexual risk behavior. 
  • Dissociable roles for the basolateral amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex in decision-making under risk of punishment. 
  • Distinct value signals in anterior and posterior ventromedial prefrontal cortex. 
  • Does body satisfaction matter? Five-year longitudinal associations between body satisfaction and health behaviors in adolescent females and males. 
  • Does it really matter which drug you choose? An examination of the influence of type of drug on type of risky sexual behavior. 
  • Does the quality of safetalk motivational interviewing counseling predict sexual behavior outcomes among people living with HIV? 
  • Effectiveness of HIV prevention interventions in developing countries. 
  • Effectiveness of Mentoring Programs for Youth: A Meta-Analytic Review 
  • Effects of statewide job losses on adolescent suicide-related behaviors. 
  • Effects of the Office of National Drug Control Policy's Marijuana Initiative Campaign on high-sensation-seeking adolescents. 
  • Efficacy of a woman-focused intervention to reduce HIV risk and increase self-sufficiency among African American crack abusers. 
  • Epidemiological personology: the unifying role of personality in population-based research on problem behaviors. 
  • Estimating the cost of unmet HIV-prevention needs in the United States. 
  • Evidence of social network influence on multiple HIV risk behaviors and normative beliefs among young Tanzanian men. 
  • Evolving science in adolescence: comment on Ellis et al. (2012). 
  • Examining the role of serostatus disclosure on unprotected sex among people living with HIV. 
  • Expected value information improves financial risk taking across the adult life span. 
  • Exploring the association between perceived risks of smoking and benefits to quitting: who does not see the link? 
  • Factors associated with change in sexual transmission risk behavior over 3 years among HIV-infected patients in Tanzania. 
  • Factors associated with condom use among at-risk women students and nonstudents seen in managed care. 
  • Family dinner meal frequency and adolescent development: relationships with developmental assets and high-risk behaviors. 
  • Family protection and prevention of alcohol use among Hispanic youth at high risk. 
  • Feasibility of a clinic-delivered adolescent and pediatrician communication intervention on patient participatory behaviors and behavior change: TIC TAC pilot study. 
  • Five-year-olds do not show ambiguity aversion in a risk and ambiguity task with physical objects. 
  • Flexing dual-systems models: How variable cognitive control in children informs our understanding of risk-taking across development. 
  • Focusing HIV prevention on those most likely to transmit the virus. 
  • Gain and loss learning differentially contribute to life financial outcomes. 
  • Gay identity, interpersonal violence, and HIV risk behaviors: an empirical test of theoretical relationships among a probability-based sample of urban men who have sex with men. 
  • Gender differences in hepatitis C infection and risks among persons with severe mental illness. 
  • Global self-ratings of health and mortality: hazard in the North Carolina Piedmont. 
  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. 
  • HIV Prevalence and Associated Risks in a Respondent-Driven Sample of Illicit Stimulant Users in a Southern United States City. 
  • HIV Risk Behavior Among Methamphetamine Users Entering Substance Abuse Treatment in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • HIV Transmission Patterns Among Immigrant Latinos Illuminated by the Integration of Phylogenetic and Migration Data. 
  • HIV medical care provider practices for reducing high-risk sexual behavior: results of a qualitative study. 
  • HIV risk behavior among adults with severe mental illness: a systematic review. 
  • HIV risk behavior in opioid dependent adults seeking detoxification treatment: an exploratory comparison of heroin and oxycodone users. 
  • HIV risk behavior in treatment-seeking opioid-dependent youth: results from a NIDA clinical trials network multisite study. 
  • HIV testing behaviors and attitudes among community recruited methamphetamine users in a South African township. 
  • HIV/AIDS-related institutional mistrust among multiethnic men who have sex with men: effects on HIV testing and risk behaviors. 
  • HPTN 062: a feasibility and acceptability pilot intervention to reduce HIV transmission risk behaviors among individuals with acute and early HIV infection in Lilongwe, Malawi. 
  • Health related quality of life of adolescents in Vietnam: cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Adolescent Duke Health Profile. 
  • Hispanic women's experiences with substance abuse, intimate partner violence, and risk for HIV. 
  • Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection despite prior immunization with a recombinant envelope vaccine regimen. 
  • Identifying Adolescent Patients at Risk for Sexually Transmitted Infections: Development of a Brief Sexual Health Screening Survey. 
  • If you build it will they come? Addressing social isolation within a technology-based HIV intervention for young black men who have sex with men. 
  • Illicit and nonmedical drug use among older adults: a review. 
  • Impact of bullying in childhood on adult health, wealth, crime, and social outcomes. 
  • Incident stressful and traumatic life events and human immunodeficiency virus sexual transmission risk behaviors in a longitudinal, multisite cohort study. 
  • Individual and partner characteristics associated with HIV testing and counseling uptake among individuals 50 years or older in Tanzania. 
  • Individual differences in loss aversion and preferences for skewed risks across adulthood. 
  • Individual differences in skewed financial risk-taking across the adult life span. 
  • Individual- and family-level psychosocial correlates of HIV risk behavior among youth in rural Kenya. 
  • Infant birth weight among women with or at high risk for HIV infection: the impact of clinical, behavioral, psychosocial, and demographic factors. 
  • Influence of a tobacco-free hospital campus policy on smoking status of hospital employees. 
  • Information processing for decision making in depressed women. A study of subjective expected utilities. 
  • Interaction of reward seeking and self-regulation in the prediction of risk taking: A cross-national test of the dual systems model. 
  • Invalidity of an Oft-Cited Estimate of the Relative Harms of Electronic Cigarettes. 
  • Investigating the genetic architecture of noncognitive skills using GWAS-by-subtraction. 
  • Job strain and blood pressure in African Americans: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Knowledge and risks of human immunodeficiency virus transmission among veterans with severe mental illness. 
  • La mancha negra: substance abuse, violence, and sexual risks among Hispanic males. 
  • Latent class analysis of lifestyle characteristics and health risk behaviors among college youth. 
  • Let's stay together: relationship dissolution and sexually transmitted diseases among parenting and non-parenting adolescents. 
  • Linguistic and Cultural Adaptation of a Computer-Based Counseling Program (CARE+ Spanish) to Support HIV Treatment Adherence and Risk Reduction for People Living With HIV/AIDS: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Long-term correlates of childhood abuse among adults with severe mental illness: adult victimization, substance abuse, and HIV sexual risk behavior. 
  • Low- and high-testosterone individuals exhibit decreased aversion to economic risk. 
  • Marijuana use and sex with multiple partners among lesbian, gay and bisexual youth: results from a national sample. 
  • Maternal health prior to pregnancy and preterm birth among urban, low income black women in Baltimore: the Baltimore Preterm Birth Study. 
  • Measurement of self-reported HIV risk behaviors in injection drug users: comparison of standard versus timeline follow-back administration procedures. 
  • Mental health and HIV sexual risk behavior among patrons of alcohol serving venues in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • Mental health treatment to reduce HIV transmission risk behavior: a positive prevention model. 
  • Misestimation of peer tobacco use: understanding disparities in tobacco use. 
  • Morningness-eveningness and risk taking. 
  • Motivational state and reward content determine choice behavior under risk in mice. 
  • Motivations for Reducing Other HIV Risk-Reduction Practices if Taking Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: Findings from a Qualitative Study Among Women in Kenya and South Africa. 
  • Negotiating risk: knowledge and use of HIV prevention by persons with serious mental illness living in supportive housing. 
  • Neural mechanisms of risky decision-making and reward response in adolescent onset cannabis use disorder. 
  • Neural signatures of economic preferences for risk and ambiguity. 
  • Older Americans' risk-benefit preferences for modifying the course of Alzheimer disease. 
  • Orphan status, HIV risk behavior, and mental health among adolescents in rural Kenya. 
  • Patterns and predictors of clustered risky health behaviors among adult survivors of childhood cancer: A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Patterns of HIV disclosure and condom use among HIV-infected young racial/ethnic minority men who have sex with men. 
  • Patterns of health-compromising behaviors among Minnesota adolescents: sociodemographic variations. 
  • Patterns of reasoning and decision making about condom use by urban college students. 
  • Peer norms moderate the association between mental health and sexual risk behaviors among young men living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 
  • Perceived sexual control, sex-related alcohol expectancies and behavior predict substance-related sexual revictimization. 
  • Perception of HIV risk and adherence to a daily, investigational pill for HIV prevention in FEM-PrEP. 
  • Personality and problem gambling: a prospective study of a birth cohort of young adults. 
  • Personality and sexual risk taking: a quantitative review. 
  • Personality processes and problem behavior. 
  • Personality psychology and problem behaviors: HIV risk and the five-factor model. 
  • Polymorphisms in HLA class I genes associated with both favorable prognosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 infection and positive cytotoxic T-lymphocyte responses to ALVAC-HIV recombinant canarypox vaccines. 
  • Positive deviance. 
  • Potentially traumatic experiences and sexual health among orphaned and separated adolescents in five low- and middle-income countries. 
  • Pre-treatment measures of impulsivity, aggression and sensation seeking are associated with treatment outcome for African-American cocaine-dependent patients. 
  • Predicting early sexual activity with behavior problems exhibited at school entry and in early adolescence. 
  • Predictors of exposure from an antimarijuana media campaign: outcome research assessing sensation seeking targeting. 
  • Preexposure prophylaxis for HIV infection among African women. 
  • Preferences for Temporal Sequences of Real Outcomes Differ Across Domains but do not Vary by Age. 
  • Preparing for the Rollout of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): A Vignette Survey to Identify Intended Sexual Behaviors among Women in Kenya and South Africa if Using PrEP. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of alcohol-induced blackouts among college students: results of an e-mail survey. 
  • Prevalence and risk and protective factors related to disordered eating behaviors among adolescents: relationship to gender and ethnicity. 
  • Prevalence of childhood sexual abuse and physical trauma in an HIV-positive sample from the deep south. 
  • Problem behaviors in adolescents. 
  • Processing speed and memory mediate age-related differences in decision making. 
  • Protecting the self from the negative consequences of risky decisions. 
  • Psychiatric disorders and risky sexual behaviour in young adulthood: cross sectional study in birth cohort. 
  • Psychological well-being of the institutionalized and community-residing oldest old in China: the role of children. 
  • Psychometric evaluation of HIV risk behavior assessments using Audio Computer Assisted Self-Interviewing (ACASI) among orphans and vulnerable children in Zambia. 
  • Psychosocial and behavioral correlates of dieting and purging in Native American adolescents. 
  • Psychosocial concerns and health-compromising behaviors among overweight and nonoverweight adolescents. 
  • Psychosocial correlates of health compromising behaviors among adolescents. 
  • Psychosocial factors in sunbathing and sunscreen use. 
  • Psychosocial predictors of sexual HIV transmission risk behavior among HIV-positive adults with a sexual abuse history in childhood. 
  • Psychosocial vulnerability and HIV-related sexual risk among men who have sex with men and women in the United States. 
  • Putting prevention in their pockets: developing mobile phone-based HIV interventions for black men who have sex with men. 
  • Racial differences in hepatitis B and hepatitis C and associated risk behaviors in veterans with severe mental illness. 
  • Racial/ethnic differences in the rates and correlates of HIV risk behaviors among drug abusers. 
  • Reason's Enemy Is Not Emotion: Engagement of Cognitive Control Networks Explains Biases in Gain/Loss Framing. 
  • Reframing and understanding the HIV epidemic in MSM: masculinity, racism, and homophobia. 
  • Relationship between trauma and high-risk behavior among HIV-positive men who do not have sex with men (MDSM). 
  • Relationship type, condom use and HIV/AIDS risks among men who have sex with men in six Chinese cities. 
  • Results from a cluster-randomized trial to evaluate a microfinance and peer health leadership intervention to prevent HIV and intimate partner violence among social networks of Tanzanian men. 
  • Risk factors for HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C among persons with severe mental illness. 
  • Risk patterns preceding diagnosis among newly HIV-diagnosed men who have sex with men in New York City. 
  • Risk perceptions and smoking decisions of adult Chinese men. 
  • Risk preferences and aging: the "certainty effect" in older adults' decision making. 
  • Risky business: the neuroeconomics of decision making under uncertainty. 
  • Risky decisions despite counter evidence: modeling a culture of safer sexual practices. 
  • Role of self-presentation in the health practices of a sample of Irish adolescents. 
  • Self-Efficacy for Sexual Risk Reduction and Partner HIV Status as Correlates of Sexual Risk Behavior Among HIV-Positive Adolescent Girls and Women. 
  • Self-regulatory processes underlying structural stigma and health. 
  • Sensation seeking and drug use by adolescents and their friends: models for marijuana and alcohol. 
  • Separate neural mechanisms underlie choices and strategic preferences in risky decision making. 
  • Serotonin shapes risky decision making in monkeys. 
  • Sex Differences in the Effect of Nucleus Accumbens Volume on Adolescent Drinking: The Mediating Role of Sensation Seeking in the NCANDA Sample. 
  • Sexual risk behavior among persons dually diagnosed with severe mental illness and substance use disorder. 
  • Sexuality, sexual practices, and HIV risk among incarcerated African-American women in North Carolina. 
  • Shaping understanding of HIV through negotiation and conflict resolution during peer group discussion. 
  • Skin cancer risk factors and screening among sexual minority and heterosexual women. 
  • Smoking and the Five-Factor Model of personality. 
  • Social Network Clustering and the Spread of HIV/AIDS Among Persons Who Inject Drugs in 2 Cities in the Philippines. 
  • Social network isolation mediates associations between risky symptoms and substance use in the high school transition. 
  • Social, behavioral, and genetic linkages from adolescence into adulthood. 
  • Socioecological Factors Related to Hazardous Alcohol use among Female Sex Workers in Lilongwe, Malawi: A Mixed Methods Study. 
  • Sports and energy drink consumption are linked to health-risk behaviours among young adults. 
  • Stability and change in risk-taking propensity across the adult life span. 
  • State disparities in time trends of adolescent body mass index percentile and weight-related behaviors in the United States. 
  • Stigma and Mobile App Use Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men. 
  • Suboptimal foraging behavior: a new perspective on gambling. 
  • Substance Use and Suicide in Pacific Islander, American Indian, and Multiracial Youth. 
  • Substance abuse and the transmission of hepatitis C among persons with severe mental illness. 
  • Substance use, sexual risk, and violence: HIV prevention intervention with sex workers in Pretoria. 
  • Survey development for assessing correlates of young adolescents' eating. 
  • Sustained Sexual Behavior Change After Acute HIV Diagnosis in Malawi. 
  • Syringe exchanges: a public health response to problem drug use. 
  • Systematic review of sexual risk among pregnant and mothering teens in the USA: pregnancy as an opportunity for integrated prevention of STD and repeat pregnancy. 
  • Taking a risk to save a life. 
  • Testing the interaction between parent-child relationship factors and parent smoking to predict youth smoking. 
  • The Co-occurrence of Daily Smoking, Binge Drinking and IPV Among Latino Expectant Fathers. 
  • The Cognitive Escape Scale: measuring HIV-related thought avoidance. 
  • The Role of Self-Control and Early Adolescents' Friendships in the Development of Externalizing Behavior: The SNARE Study. 
  • The association between in utero cigarette smoke exposure and age at menopause. 
  • The association of HIV counseling and testing with HIV risk behaviors in a random population-based survey in Kisumu, Kenya. 
  • The effects of early sexual abuse on adult risky sexual behaviors among persons with severe mental illness. 
  • The five-site health and risk study of blood-borne infections among persons with severe mental illness. 
  • The impact of item order on ratings of cancer risk perception. 
  • The influence of early sexual debut and sexual violence on adolescent pregnancy: a matched case-control study in Jamaica. 
  • The nature and impact of chronic stressors on refugee children in Ban Mai Nai Soi camp, Thailand. 
  • The neural substrates of probabilistic and intertemporal decision making. 
  • The order of information processing alters economic gain-loss framing effects. 
  • The relationship of manic episodes and drug abuse to sexual risk behavior in patients with co-occurring bipolar and substance use disorders: a 15-month prospective analysis. 
  • The role of pedunculopontine nucleus in choice behavior under risk. 
  • The role of relationship types on condom use among urban men with concurrent partners in Ghana and Tanzania. 
  • The roles of self-efficacy and pretest counseling in type 2 herpes simplex virus screening in asymptomatic adults. 
  • Three year follow-up of coping power intervention effects: evidence of neighborhood moderation? 
  • Through the looking glass: risk perception. 
  • Topical Review: ADHD and Health-Risk Behaviors: Toward Prevention and Health Promotion. 
  • Trajectories of risk for early sexual activity and early substance use in the Fast Track prevention program. 
  • Two Studies of Connectedness to Parents and Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior in Children and Adolescents. 
  • Understanding Multiple Behavioral Risk Factors for Cancer in Rural Women. 
  • Understanding young adult physical activity, alcohol and tobacco use in community colleges and 4-year post-secondary institutions: A cross-sectional analysis of epidemiological surveillance data. 
  • Unfair treatment, racial/ethnic discrimination, ethnic identification, and smoking among Asian Americans in the National Latino and Asian American Study. 
  • Unhealthy behaviors and psychosocial difficulties among overweight adolescents: the potential impact of familial factors. 
  • Unintended pregnancy and prenatal behaviors among urban, black women in Baltimore, Maryland: the Baltimore preterm birth study. 
  • Unprotected intercourse for extra money among commercial sex workers in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. 
  • Use of Salvia divinorum in a nationally representative sample. 
  • Use of item response theory and latent class analysis to link poly-substance use disorders with addiction severity, HIV risk, and quality of life among opioid-dependent patients in the Clinical Trials Network. 
  • Use of psychiatric and medical health care by veterans with severe mental illness. 
  • Use of the light/dark test for anxiety in adult and adolescent male rats. 
  • Using syndemic theory to understand vulnerability to HIV infection among Black and Latino men in New York City. 
  • Using the Social-Ecological Model of HIV Prevention to Explore HIV Testing Behaviors of Young Black College Women. 
  • Variability in nucleus accumbens activity mediates age-related suboptimal financial risk taking. 
  • Vijana Vijiweni II: a cluster-randomized trial to evaluate the efficacy of a microfinance and peer health leadership intervention for HIV and intimate partner violence prevention among social networks of young men in Dar es Salaam. 
  • Violence, homelessness, and HIV risk among crack-using African-American women. 
  • Voluntary HIV testing among adults with severe mental illness: frequency and associated factors. 
  • Why are young college women not using condoms? Their perceived risk, drug use, and developmental vulnerability may provide important clues to sexual risk. 
  • Willingness to Undergo a Risky Treatment to Improve Cognition Among Persons With Cognitive Impairment Who Received an Amyloid PET Scan. 
  • Young Men's Social Network Characteristics and Associations with Sexual Partnership Concurrency in Tanzania. 
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  • Bennett, Vann, George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Gassman-Pines, Anna, WLF Bass Connections Associate Professor, Duke Science & Society
  • Larrick, Richard P., Hanes Corporation Foundation Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, Duke University Energy Initiative
  • Pang, Herbert, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Rasiel, Emma, Professor of the Practice of Economics, Duke University Energy Initiative
  • Whetten, Kathryn, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, School of Nursing
  • Wu, Li-Tzy, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine